Hi all, I am back online.Is Pln back? Wish she has her nice days in her new house now.
Those days,I have a busy day too.So many changes are on my life.Taking bus,Cooking,Cleaning,Moving,etc.I am so tired now.LOL It's great see you guys now. Best regards On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Pablo<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
