Lang-8

Lang-8 is an amazing site, an effective give-and-take learning community for the study of languages!

My name there is Saber0.

Basically, everyone has 'L points', which determine your L point ranking. The ranking determines how many people will see the posts you make that you wish to have assessed and corrected when people click 'correct' and view posts awaiting correction. The higher your L points, the higher on the list your posts will go and the more people's corrections you'll be likely to receive.

L-points go way up quite easily, all you have to do is make a few corrections on posts in your native language. Another determining factor for L points is the 'quality' assessment of your corrections by others. That is, whenever you make corrections for someone, others can vouch for those corrections. Everything can be commented on, and there are buttons for thanking and 'liking' corrections or comments.

Furthermore, in addition to being able to access your past posts and received corrections easily, you have a 'notebook' wherein you can store select corrections that you've chosen to store there. A post written in your language of study is corrected by others line by line, and comments can thereby also be line-by-line. Each correction set on each single line of your post can be individually stored into the notebook - that's how it works! It's great!

You don't even have to correct every line of someone else's post, you just correct and/or comment on whatever you like. Commenting is not just for each line, there's also a larger message entry box at the bottom of the post for commenting on the post/corrections as a whole.

My first time using Lang08 and posting in Japanese, I received full corrections from 6-8 people (I don't remember exactly how many) within the first 15 minutes!
It's crazy!:)

So basically...

I really recommend Lang-8 if you wish to improve in a language!

~Yukigami

Teaching

Teaching

I've been teaching Go for at least five years now, and over that span of time my teaching has continually improved. These days I get a lot of very positive and flattering feedback (thank you~).

I believe it is important to focus on concepts and real understanding rather than case-by-case tactical explanations. It is just the same for academic studies, and really life itself - and speaking of which, let me just throw it in here that Go not only provides deep mental and personal cultivation, but also is really analogous  to life!

I believe that more so than just a having deep understanding of Go, teaching it requires the ability to put oneself in the student's shoes. Furthermore, with a little creativity, a Go teacher can complement explanations through use of various fun and relatable analogies and metaphors - it is very important to comprehend and discern the situational as well as the long-term needs of the student.

As for English, I've taught a few people in the past, but for the most part have just started tutoring in early 2013. For both Go and English (I can also tutor Japanese for very low-level beginners), I have some typical formats in which I teach, but can teach in any other format as well - I am open to mostly anything.



RATES...

...are open to discussion!

But in general, for real-time lessons, I charge about $20/hour. Travel time/expenses not included.


If you have any questions, please, feel free to contact me!
You can email me, contact me via my other social media, or even easier -  fill out the "Talk to Yuki" form on the right sidebar (it can be found on the right, close to the top if you scroll up a bit)



This page is still under construction, and will eventually include more details and links to other related information and sources of credibility such as past lessons, feedback and more!


~Yukigami