Hello everyone,
and welcome to … your story of the day :).
Yeay, it is happening.
A couple of weeks ago, I asked you if you’d be interested in a sort of writing practice where you write a short piece about yourself or your life or whatever, and I go through it on the blog and correct mistakes and give a little commentary about style and phrasing.
Many of you seemed to like the idea, and quite a few have already sent me stories, so today, we’ll try it out now :).
Your Stories – Part 1
Now, while I was preparing this, I realized that there are actually quite a few ways to do it. Correct mistakes immediately, or show the full text first? Add English translations? If yes, where? As a block or line by line?
Each option has its own pros and cons. Like … having the mistakes separate means a better flow while reading, but at the same time way more scrolling and searching.
Maybe, there actually is not THE one best way to present this but for today, I have decided to do the following:
- I’ll read the corrected text and you can read along, with English translations
- I’ll break down the original text and correct and comment sentence by sentence
And today, we’ll have the pretty well written short story of why the reader David learned Chinese as a young man and is learning German only now, so… let’s jump right in.
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