There are a couple of ways to practice writing online.
The first place I would recommend is lang-8.com. This free online resource enables language learners to write in their target language. A native speaker of your target language corrects your written work. You then reciprocate by correcting someone else’s work written in your native language.
The advantages of lang-8.com are that it is free, you don’t need to feel embarrassed of your mistakes because everyone else is making mistakes too, your work gets corrected so that you can learn from it and it is always an extremely active website.
The disadvantages of lang-8.com are that it can be hard to think of new topics to write about. For languages that are very popular like English, it can take awhile for a native English speaker to correct your work because there are always many English written pieces waiting to be corrected. This is the same for more obscure languages too where there is a lack of native speakers available to correct your work.
The second place I would recommend to practice writing online is in various forums of your target language.
The advantages of writing in forums are that they are free and you can get involved in discussions that you are genuinely interested about. You will also come across a lot of slang and colloquialisms that you won’t find in an academic language learning book.
The disadvantages of writing in forums are that they can be rather intimidating if you know that you are probably going to be making mistakes. Some forums can be very aggressive in style too so you would also need to be careful to select forums that have a more friendly atmosphere. No-one will correct your errors either and finally, not all native speakers write well in forums.
Whatever you do to practice writing, just be sure to enjoy it.
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