Hello Kevin and all of silent member, If you or anyone wants to practice your written English, just go ahead!
Although, it's a pity this forum is so feature limited. Well, let me explain myself better, and don't pay much attention to my words, it's just that sometimes I feel helpless because of so many (I guess) silent members: Since last week, I've found a new site: http://my.spanishdict.com/ with a lot of members, most of them use to post in English, so I didn't hesitate in sign in to take advantage of that fact. Well, that site is a sort of portal to learn Spanish (and English, for spanish speakers). The forums are web-based, contrary to Google Groups, which are e-mail oriented (I consider this latest a bad thing). In SpanishDict, you can subscribe to any thread you are interested in, and you receive in your email inbox, notifications related to the threads you are subscribed. I mean, it's a high-activity group, where you can control the messages that go through your inbox. And members are not afraid to participate because they can write in English or in Spanish, or both. Well, it's a pity we can do so here, because of the multi-cultural/ language nature of our group. But... In that Group (sorry for the comparison), I see people not care if they write or not in 'perfect' Spanish, and others simply prefer write in English. And also, many of them are extremely focused on grammar stuff (a bad thing). I wonder if having a site like that our group would have any positive change. It's a pity the software of our group don't have 'metrics' (number or views per page). And the uncertainty of not knowing how many we really are, it's something that doesn't help. There is a saying: what can't be measured can't be improved (or something like that). Well, that's just my perception. Thank you, Pablo On 17 jun, 21:39, Kevin kim <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Pablo and all members, > > Thank you for your interest and sorry for the late reply.These days, I > have too much work to do. : ( > > > > > > I didn't mean that. Let me elaborate on what I just said. > > > What I was trying to say is how about just create another messages > > > like 'Discusstions'. > > > Natually, every member are able to write story to get up as live day > > > by day. > > > > I thought it is useful for silent members and english beginner like > > > me. > > > They can write whatever they want to write, like a diary. And further, > > > someone can help them to correct their composition and could be > > > friends with all member in this cafe. > > > One of the main objectives of this group is to practice writing, so I > > think it's a very good idea. Every member could have his/her page > > (thread). I think > > we can try! > > > Should every thread (diary, personal page) have the name of each > > person? Would those pages (threads) be for making corrections? I > > think that the important > > think is to make corrections only if the person say it explicitly, > > isn't it? > > I think it is ok to have the name of each person. > these pages(threads) could be using for both making corrections and > community. > > I hope that many members can feel free to write and comunicate. > > What does other members think of this? > > Have a nice day~ > Kevin, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "English Learner's Cafe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/english_learners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
