Dear italki, this new community is ruining it for serious language learners - please bring back the notebook function!
As a learner, the community was the most valuable feature and my go-to reason to keep using italki (over other apps like hello talk)
I especially liked notebook function, because I could:
- write essays and get valuable feedback by other learners
- track my progress
- have an overview, see my articles in one go
- communicate with my teachers to hand in work
- help others and give them the feedback to progress
I understand the community may be a step forward to engage general users to write something, but it is not the right format for most serious language learners like me.
Furthermore the desktop version was much better for that- it takes me ages to write something in my target language on the phone, much less in a language like Japanese....
By removing the language partner functions, now these will be the main posts for a while...
Please bring back the notebook function!!