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Thank you very much for using Lang-8.
This is Yangyang.

If notifications on your home won't be shown, please try following things.

1, Please delete cache of your browser.

or

2, Please press Control key and R key of your keyboard.

Then it will work fine.


Thank you very much
Yangyang
Lang-8 staff


(Japanese)

Lang-8をご利用頂き誠に有難うございます。
もし、マイホームの赤い字のお知らせが表示されない場合は、以下のことを試してみてください。

1, ブラウザのキャッシュの削除

または

2,　キーボードのControlボタンとRボタンを同時に押してページを強制リロードする。

これでお知らせが表示されるはずです。

ご迷惑をおかけして申しわけございません。

引き続きLang-8をどうぞ宜しくお願い致します。

Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Fri Jun 17 17:07:14 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/976192 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/976192 lang-8 staff Fri Jun 17 17:07:14 UTC 2011

**earthquake how to protect yourself
http://nip0.wordpress.com/


**Real time information by Google (English)**
http://www.google.co.jp/intl/en/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

**Japan earthquake live report
News, emergency information, live reaction by Time Out Tokyo**

http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/feature/2530/Japan-earthquake-live-report


**Multilingual Living information(15 languages)**
http://www.clair.or.jp/tagengorev/


**Radio**
For foreigners in Japan- News on the quake on NHK Radio 963, in English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, German,...


**Live streaming of TV(Japanese)**
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tbstv

NHK stream on UStream. (Thank you for the information, atlantiza!)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/7472397


**Person Finder: 2011 Japan Earthquake**
http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en


**Real Time Information by Google (Japanese)**
http://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html


**Pacific Tsunami Warning Center(English)**
http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/?region=1&id=pacific.2011.03.11.073000


**The place you can use as shelter in Tokyo(Google Map)**
http://maps.google.co.jp/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&brcurrent=3,0x605d1b87f02e57e7:0x2e01618b22571b89,1&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=215507572864740295322.00049e31ae027259c4dda&z=9


**Free Interpretation Service with phone for foreigners in Japan**

TEL: 050(5814)7230
in English, Chinese and Korean (24h)
and in Portuguese, Spanish (from 9 am to 8pm)
http://www.47news.jp/CN/201103/CN2011031101001122.html


**緊急地震対策マニュアル **
http://mblg.tv/enokiiii/entry/1/


**Some information from twitter**
在日台灣人，如發生急難事故，一時無法與駐外館處取得聯繫時，可以透過「001-010-800-0885-0885 或 0033-010--800-0885-0885」此專線電話向「外交部緊急聯絡中心」尋求聯繫協助
http://twitter.com/#!/natu_c/status/46174491176476672

지진 피해를 받은 한국인, 재일 동포 여러분에게 외교통상부 영사 콜센터 무료전화)001-010-800-2100-0404 연결 불가시 유료전화) 001-82-2-3210-0404
http://twitter.com/#!/hosshyan/status/46209799901294592

Italian nationals in Japan should contact the embassy by telephone 03-3453-5274 or via e-mail consular.tokyo@esteri.it.
http://twitter.com/#!/MezzanaPisa/status/46255585288658944





If you want to do something for Japan, you can visit this website.
**Donation**
American Red cross
http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_src=RSG000000000&s_subsrc=RCO_ResponseStateSection

Yahoo!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_newsroom/20110311/wl_yblog_newsroom/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-how-to-help

Global giving
http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/japan-earthquake-tsunami-relief/?rf=twtr

Donation For Japan
http://donatejapan.eventbrite.com/

Other Japanese website you can donate.
http://cause-action.jp/

寄付先一覧
http://r.nanapi.jp/24717/

Please be careful with TSUNAMI.


If you have any information, you can write here.

Yangyang


Posted at Fri Mar 11 15:54:29 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/843766 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/843766 lang-8 staff Fri Mar 11 15:54:29 UTC 2011

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

Since last week, it's been very difficult to access Lang-8.
We apologize for this inconvenience.

We have checked our system deeply, and finally find what is wrong.
It is due to a machine of network, not our servers.

We will change the machine in 2 days because we have to wait the company of the network we use bring to the machine.

We are very sorry for the trouble this time.
We will do long maintenance tomorrow, and we believe everything will be fine after it.

Thank you very much,


Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Mon Feb 28 04:20:05 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/827582 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/827582 lang-8 staff Mon Feb 28 04:20:05 UTC 2011
Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

It is very hard to access Lang-8 these days.
We are very sorry for that.
We are woking hard to fix this problem.

Thank you very much,

Yangyang

Posted at Fri Feb 25 19:55:49 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/824958 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/824958 lang-8 staff Fri Feb 25 19:55:49 UTC 2011

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.
If you are a premium user, you can change background image of your page since today.

This is how to change the background.

1, Go to the premium settings page.
http://lang-8.com/premium

2, Click the "Background" tab.

3, Choose a image file which you want to set as background image.

4, Click "Upldate" button and that's it.

5, You will find your background image has changed when you visit your home.
http://lang-8.com

6, If you want to return the default background, just click "No Image" and click "Update".


You can find what you can do with premium membership.
http://lang-8.com/premium/intro

Thank you very much,



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Wed Nov 17 12:23:00 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/696928 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/696928 lang-8 staff Wed Nov 17 12:23:00 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.
There was a bug on the privacy of journals.
All of entries which were only public for Lang-8 members were visible to everyone on the Internet during 15 pm to 18:30 pm on 15th October(JST).
The bug was fixed in 4 hours, but we are deeply sorry for that and we will be more carefully after time.

If you can't see Ranking or Footprints page, please push F5 key of your keybord.
If there were problems, please let us know.
info@lang-8.com

Thank you very much,


Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Sun Oct 17 07:53:23 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/659775 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/659775 lang-8 staff Sun Oct 17 07:53:23 UTC 2010
Thank you very much for using Lang-8.
As I wrote in the previous entry ( http://lang-8.com/4/journals/637084 ), I will do a presentation in English in San Francisco on October 13th.

Many users have helped and corrected my presentation sentences.
Next phase, I will practice speaking.


Could you please record your self reading them in English?
I'm sorry for asking such a hard work, but I want to do a good presentation and spread Lang-8 across the world.

After finish recording, could you send the file to info@lang-8.com ?

Thank you in advance.

Here are the sentences I will speak.
(You can modify them as you like before you read.)

**I have uploaded to Rhinospike, too.
http://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/yang8/3411/



---Start---

Hello, I'm Yangyang Xi, CEO of Lang-8.
Thank you all for coming today, I hope you find the information in this presentation useful.
Let's go ahead and get started.

First of all, what is Lang-8?

Lang-8 is a revolutionary approach to foreign language learning(acquisition).
Revolutionary how? (or How is it revolutionary? )

Well, it is a website where foreign language learners can come together and correct one another's writing.
This is how it works: Users submit passages they hapve written, which native speakers of the language are then able to review and edit, fixing things like wordking, spelling and grammer.
You can help others and receive help in return.

Let's say, for example, a Japanese user, a French user , or a German user were to something in English
Native English users would then be able to read and correct their entrie using the easy-to-use and intuitive Lang-8 correcton tools.

In turn, when the native English speaker write an entry in the language he or she is learning, the native speaksers of that language will be there to correct their entries.
Since it is a breeze for a native speaker to spot incorrect grammer and ood sounding sentences, our members tend to make fast and frequent corrections for fellow users.

So, Lang-8 is a community of people "giving and taking".

Let's take a look at the actual site.
First, you can register your native language and the language your are learning.
Then, you can write an entry in the languange you are learning.
Here you can shoose the langauge you need to have corrected.
And that's it.

This entry is then automatically posted to the front page of the native speakers.
This block is called "Engries awaiting your correction".

For example, my native language is Japanese so here are many Japanese entries written by people who are learning Japanese.
This makes it especially easy for me to find and access their entries that are awaiting correction and correct them.
You can also add one another as friends and frineds' entries will be shown in another block.

Of course, everything is provided for free.

In the real world there might be some people exchanging languages, but depending on where one lives, or how busy one is, meeting face-to-face and interacting with native speakers can be

difficult. We are often limited by where we live or the number of native speakers we know. Lang-8 overcomes these limitations. Lang-8 does not just crossing borders, but it also provides a

convenient and easy way for people learning new languages and corresponding native speakers to interact with each other through the internet.


We are simply taking advatage of the fact that everyone (well, almost everyone) has a native tongue.


Thus, at Lang-8, everyone is both a student and a teacher.
You might still be wondering how many members actually correct other users' entries.
Often post will get a first correction within 5 minutes - and about 90% of entries will get corrected. (except entries written in English.)

What's also fun and unique about Lang-8 is that by reading entries written in your language by people from different cultures and experiences, you can have fun learning how someone from another culture and language thinks about and perceives the world.

It is very interesting to understand how foreign people think and to see what foreign culture is like.

Though our company is located in Japan, our user are from 200 countries all around the world, and 70% of Lang-8 users are non-Japanese.
Our goal is to provide a worldwide service, not just local, Japanese service.

We already no have entries written in 80 different languages.
Let's see some examples.

This one is written in XXX language by YYY native speaker.
And this one is written in AAA language by BBB native speaker.

・・・

Let's see more data.
There are more than 190,000 Lang-8 users today with over 570,000 entries posted to date.

Some people confuse Lang-8 for a translation service when, in fact, we are a langauge learning service.
Please make no mistake about this.
Translatin requires high-level skills, but correcting sentences is not hard, as I said before, you only have to be a native speaker of the language to be able to easily correct entries.
This contributes to why we have seen much success in our Lang-8 community - because it is just so easy to help others and to have that help reciprocated.

There are so many different languages here!

Lang-8 is the realization of free language-exchange, online. It is the convenience and joy of utilizing instant internet connection, across oceans and time zones, and, more importantly, across the

spectrum of our community's lives and experiences.
Plase come and visit, and see for yourself.

thank you very much,

---end ---



P.S.
Some users request me to upload the original Japanese sentences, so I will upload them later, it will be helpful for Japanese learner.



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff








Posted at Tue Sep 28 18:05:43 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/638409 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/638409 lang-8 staff Tue Sep 28 18:05:43 UTC 2010

This is Yangyang.
Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

I will do a presentation in English at San Francisco on 13 October.
http://sfjapannight.com/en/
This is good chance to spread Lang-8 to the world.

As you know, my English is very poor.
So I will practice hard until the day.

I have prepared the sentences which I will speak at the presentation.
Could you please correct it?
You can edit hole sentences if you want.

After your correction, I will upload the sentence here again, and hope you read the sentences in English so I can practice pronunciation.

Thank you very much for your help!

--Start---


Hi, This is Yangyang, CEO of Lang-8.
I will start presentation of Lang-8.

First of all what is Lang-8?
Lang-8 is a website for learning foreign language in a revolutionary way.
How revolutionary?
It is a website for learners many languages to come together and correct on another's writing.
Native speakers review writing submited by learners who wish to improve.
You can help and be helped!

Let's say, for example, a Japanese user, French user, or German user were to write something in English.
Native English users will then read and correct their entries using the easy-to-use and intuitive Lang-8 correction tools.

In turn, the native English speaker will write an entry in a non-native language, and other people will correct their entries.
It doesn't take much time for native speakers to correct things in their native language, so our users tend to make a lot of corrections for others.

So, Lang-8 is a lot of people "giving and taking"

Let's see the actual site.
First, you can register your native language and the language you are learnning.
Then, you can write a entry in the language you are learning.
Here you can choice the language you need to be corrected.
This is it.

The entry will be posted to the Home of the native speakers.
This block is "Entries awaiting your correction."
For example, my native language is Japanese so here are many Japanese entries written by people who are learning Japanese, then I can easily find the entries waiting for my correction and to to correct their entries.

You can also be friend each other and the friends entries will be shown another block.
Of course all these action is free.

In the real world there might be some people exchanging languages, but this is much more convenient on th internet.

We are just exploiting the fact that everyone (weill, almost everyone ) speaks their native tongue well.
At Lang-8 everyone is a student and at the same time a teacher.

You might wonder how much people actually correct other people's entries.
Often people get a creection within 5 minutes - and over 90% of entries will get corrected.(except entries written in English.)


The other unique point of Lang-8 is that you can read enries of foreign people in your native language.
It is very fun to understand how foreign people think and to see how foreign culture like.

Though, our company is located in Japan, but our users are from 200 countries all over the world, and 70% of Lang-8 users is non-Japanese.
Our goal is worldwide service, not Japanese local service.

There are entries written in 80 kind of languages.
Let's see some example.
This entry is written in XX language by YY native speaker.
This is written in XXX language by YY native speaker.
・・・

Let's see more data.
The total Lang-8 users are 190,000 people now.
The total entries posted before are 570,000 entries.

There is a common confusion to thinking our service is a translation service, but our service is a language lerning service.
Plese no to mistake for.

Translation needs high- level skills, but correctiong sentences is not hard, it is enough if you are the native speaker of the language, then you can correct easily.
There are so many kind of languages here.


Thank you very much,





-----end -----


P.S.

Lang-8 International Exchange party on October 2
http://blog.lang-8.com/2010/09/13/vol-2-an-international-exchange-party-in-tokyo-on-october-2/



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Mon Sep 27 17:30:08 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/637084 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/637084 lang-8 staff Mon Sep 27 17:30:08 UTC 2010
Thank you very much for using Lang-8.
This is Yangyang.

We hold a Lang-8 International Exchange party on September 3.
There were many people joined the party.
Thank you very much.

We will hold second Lang-8 International Exchange party on October 2 at Ginza, Tokyo.

We hope many people join the party.
The details are here.
http://blog.lang-8.com/2010/09/13/vol-2-an-international-exchange-party-in-tokyo-on-october-2/

Here are some pictures of the latest party.
http://www.facebook.com/lang8?v=photos#!/album.php?aid=208174&id=27566414308


P.S.
I will go San Francisco During October 9 to October 14.
If you are living in SF, I hope we can meet there.
I don't know how many Lang-8 users are there.
If you are interest in gathering together, please contact me.
info@lang-8.com
The title of Email is Lang-8 night @SF

Thank you,


Yangyang
Lang-8 staff.

Posted at Tue Sep 14 22:57:33 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/622382 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/622382 lang-8 staff Tue Sep 14 22:57:33 UTC 2010
Please vote for Lang-8 ! : )
http://www.e27.sg/top-50-apps/

Thank you very much.

Posted at Tue Aug 24 14:17:32 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/598644 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/598644 lang-8 staff Tue Aug 24 14:17:32 UTC 2010

Dear Lang-8 users,

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.
When I search youtube, I am able to find some nice introduction videos about Lang-8.
Of course, some of these videos were made by ourselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrG5hjStNZo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykTbEPSjT5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo7IZV6735Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTon1pTTv-0

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lang-8&aq=f

Today, we are starting a contest regarding making an introduction video for Lang-8.

*Title
Lang-8 Introduction Video Contest

*Rule
1)Please shoot a video of introducing Lang-8.
For example, a video about the way you are using Lang-8 and the friends that you have met via Lang-8, Just an introduction of Lang-8, its premium features etc..
Every style is welcome.

2)Then please upload your video on Youtube or Facebook.

3)Please tell us the URL of your video via Email.

( info@lang-8.com )

*The deadline
24:00 October 31 2010

*How will the winners be chosen?
By the amount of video views received .

*language
Any language is ok.

*length
free

*Prize

$50 Amazon gift card for 1 person.
$10 Amazon gift card for 5 people.

We will put your video at the top page of Lang-8.com

*Attention
・Winners must tell us their e-mail account registered with Amazon.

info@lang-8.com

・We will contact the winners and place a notice in a Lang-8 staff’s entry after 1 November 2010.

・Please put a URL of Lang-8 to the description of the video.
We hope many members will join this contest.

Thank you very much,

Yangyang

Lang-8 staff

Posted at Fri Aug 20 14:45:01 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/594415 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/594415 lang-8 staff Fri Aug 20 14:45:01 UTC 2010
http://blog.lang-8.com/2010/08/04/lang-8-presents-an-international-exchange-party/



P.S.

Of course, I will be there.


Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Thu Aug 05 13:30:23 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/577760 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/577760 lang-8 staff Thu Aug 05 13:30:23 UTC 2010
Dear Lang-8 users,

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.
I have made some updates today.

When you write an entry, you can select the language you need corrected from a list of languages
(We call this "language flag")

Until today, you were able to choose any languages for your entries language flag, from today you will only be able to select the languages you are learning and your native languages.
This is more simple and easier to understand.

We have also added new premium feature.
If you are a premium user, you can add more than 2 languages that you are learning to your profile.
So you can select third, fourth language you are learning.
http://lang-8.com/profiles/edit

Of course you can select those languages as a "language flag" when you write a new entry.


Thank you very much,



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff


**Update***
Thank you Lightning, I have fixed some of my sentences referring your correction.

Posted at Tue Jun 01 13:32:14 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/504229 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/504229 lang-8 staff Tue Jun 01 13:32:14 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

For maintenance purposes, we are going to shut down the server for 5 hours.

The down time is as follows:

01:00-06:00 (UTC) Jun 12th.

We believe that after maintenance it will be more comfortable to use Lang-8.
Thank you for your cooperation.



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff.

Posted at Mon May 31 07:17:36 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/502415 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/502415 lang-8 staff Mon May 31 07:17:36 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

These days there are many spammers in Lang-8.
Please DON'T Email to them directly.
If you receive message from them, please click "Report Spam" or Email us info@lang-8.com with them ID (ID means http://lang-8.com/**** )

Here is a sample of spam messages.

****
Hello My Dear,
My name is nancy,
i saw your profile today( www.babbel.com)at and became interested in you,i will also like to know you the more,and i want you to send an email to my email address so i can give you my picture for you to know whom i am.Here is my email address (nancyduke68@yahoo.co.uk) i believe we can move from here!
(Remember that age, distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)

I will be happy to seeing a good responds from you
(nancyduke68@yahoo.co.uk)
Your's
nancy,

******


Thank you very much,


Yangyang
Lang-8 staff


Posted at Tue May 25 05:30:19 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/495046 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/495046 lang-8 staff Tue May 25 05:30:19 UTC 2010 Dear Lang-8 users,



Thank you very much for using Lang-8.


For server maintenance, we are going to shut down the server for 5 hours again

The down time is as follows:

11:00-16:00 (UTC+09:00) May 22th.


You can check whether the maintenance is finished or not on twitter.

http://twitter.com/lang8

Thank you for your cooperation.

Yangyang

Lang-8 staff

Posted at Fri May 21 16:16:36 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/490660 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/490660 lang-8 staff Fri May 21 16:16:36 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

We are very sorry for that it is very hard to access Lang-8 these days.
For server maintenance, we are going to shutdown the server for 5 hours.
We are going to shutdown the server for 5 hours to maintenance the server.


The down time is as follows:

15:00-22:00 (UTC+09:00) May 15th.

You can check the maintenance is finished or not at twitter.
http://twitter.com/lang8

Thank you for your cooperation.



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff


Posted at Fri May 14 18:10:16 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/482447 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/482447 lang-8 staff Fri May 14 18:10:16 UTC 2010
Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

We have upgraded one of the premium features!
We added one more priority column on "entries awaiting your correction" for Premium users.

Premium users will have entries corrected more than before!

Premium account introduction.
https://lang-8.com/premium/intro

Thank you very much,


Yuki
Lang-8 satff

Posted at Mon May 03 08:48:14 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/467716 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/467716 lang-8 staff Mon May 03 08:48:14 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

As we have announce 3days ago, we have stopped some features temporarily.
http://lang-8.com/4/journals/455994

Today, we finally restored those features!
"Latest journal entries that are awaiting your corrections" in your home
"New entries written in the language you are learning 1" in your home
"New entries written in the language you are learning 2" in your home
The page of Latest journals.
Journal Search features.


Now you can use them as before.
(We are very sorry, but before we finished maintenance completely, there still be a possibility that we have to stop those features again for temporarily.)


Thank you very much, and enjoy language exchange.



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff





Posted at Wed Apr 28 04:32:46 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/460915 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/460915 lang-8 staff Wed Apr 28 04:32:46 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

It was very hard to access Lang-8 for last 7 hours.
We are very sorry.
Now you can access Lang-8 as normal.


It was because there were huge requests and they made this service slow.
We have stopped some feature temporarily for maintenance.

The feature is as following.


"Latest journal entries that are awaiting your corrections" in your home
"New entries written in the language you are learning 1" in your home
"New entries written in the language you are learning 2" in your home
The page of Latest journals.
Journal Search features.

We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience.
These features are very important for Lang-8, so we will do our best to
start these features again in a week.

Thank you very much



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff






Posted at Sat Apr 24 16:51:46 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/455994 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/455994 lang-8 staff Sat Apr 24 16:51:46 UTC 2010
放送されました。


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnwVs5Hwsg&feature=youtu.be


***Updated****

締め切りました。
ご協力有難うございました。
該当者の方には後ほどご連絡致します。

ご協力有難うございました。
（特に事件などがなければ）
今週金曜日、23日 10:55～11:50放送のNHKのBizスポワイドで放送されるそうです。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/bizspo/

*****************

I'm sorry for writing in Japanese, this information is for Japanese users.


いつもLang-8をご利用いただき誠に有難うございます。
心よりお礼申し上げます。

現在テレビ局(経済番組)から取材が来ているのですが、取材にご協力頂ける方を募集しております。

対象：

・Lang-8で英語・中国語"以外"の言語を学習されている方。

・関東または関西在住の方

・4月21日（水）の午後または22日（木）に取材に応じていただける方。
（時間は出来るだけ合わせます。）


もしご協力頂ける場合は、

info@lang-8.comに以下を記載してメールして頂けますでしょうか？

・お住まいの地域
・ご連絡先（電話番号）
・なぜLang-8を活用されているか


急なお願いで恐縮ですが、どうぞ宜しくお願い申し上げます。




Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Tue Apr 20 10:00:29 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/450623 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/450623 lang-8 staff Tue Apr 20 10:00:29 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

After the yesterday's maintenance, there are some errors.


1, The notification of comments or corrections on home won't disappeared.
e.x.) (*)5 new journal comment(s)!


We are sorry for the inconvenience.
We will fix this problem as soon as possible.


2. If you can't find the notification Email of comments or something from yesterday, could you check your spam mail folder?
If you still can't find them, please tell us.


If you have a error same as these, please comment here just like,
"I have same error with 1 and 2"


Thank you very much,


Yangyang
Lang-8 staff




****Update*****


I think the error of 1 and 2 both has been fixed.
Could you check again?


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Posted at Mon Apr 19 03:14:46 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/448966 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/448966 lang-8 staff Mon Apr 19 03:14:46 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.
We are very sorry that the maintenance took so long time, and there were still error after the maintenance for 3~4 hours.
We apologize for that.

There days the server responce is very slow and very inconvenience for using, we are very sorry for that.
We will do maintenance severaltimes in April and May and make the speed of server faster.

Thank you very much for your co-operation.



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Sun Apr 18 15:43:58 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/448478 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/448478 lang-8 staff Sun Apr 18 15:43:58 UTC 2010
The maintenance will take more long time than we supposed.
The new schedule is
16:00-21:00 (UTC+09:00) April 18th.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Dear Lang-8 users,

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

For server maintenance, we are going to shutdown the server for 2 hours.

The down time is following:

15:00-17:00 (UTC+09:00) April 18th.


Thank you very mucu,



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Sat Apr 17 10:43:13 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/447495 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/447495 lang-8 staff Sat Apr 17 10:43:13 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

If you are a premium user, could you answer the questionnaire below ?

Questionnaire about Lang-8 Premium Account (Premium user only)
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/lang-8.jp/viewform?formkey=dGlaeGVKRHhtMnBKUUd5Ykp3VTFmYnc6MA



Thank you very much : )



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Fri Apr 02 07:55:52 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/430124 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/430124 lang-8 staff Fri Apr 02 07:55:52 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.


Could you answer the following Questionnaire about Lang-8?

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE1lSE1FUzk1d2lQUmM1b0t6NURTVWc6MA




Lang-8 is running by 1 full time worker (me) and few part time job.
We have a big dream, to make Lang-8 the world best language learning service. (Our goal is 100,000,000 users for Lang-8.)

Now, there are only sentence correction system, but we will add more unique and great feature for language learning in future.

As we said before, it is very hard to make ends meet with very little income.


We'd appreciate it if you would consider taking out a premium subscription.
You can also purchase a premium subscription to give to your friends.

Lang-8 premium account
http://lang-8.com/premium/intro

Donation page
http://lang-8.com/help/donation


This is an interview of Lang-8.(Japanese)
月間売り上げ10万円だが……添削SNS「Lang-8」で世界を狙う25歳社長
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0911/18/news075.html


Presentation of Lang-8.(Japanese, too.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpBDJ-f_y-g



Thank you very much,


Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Sun Mar 14 18:49:19 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/407372 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/407372 lang-8 staff Sun Mar 14 18:49:19 UTC 2010
Thank you very much for using Lang-8.
This is Yangyang.

Thank you for your cooperation to the Questionnaire.
I will tell you the winner who will get Amazon gift card $50.



The winner is....







Frogs!
http://lang-8.com/5293






Congratulations!




Thank you, too for your all cooperation.



Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Thu Mar 11 11:24:47 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/403103 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/403103 lang-8 staff Thu Mar 11 11:24:47 UTC 2010

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

Could you answer a questionnaire below ?
(I'm sorry, but excluding the Japanese.)
Thank you very much for your cooperation..


http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dElJWm14d3UwNTZqR0p4REZXbmtBUEE6MA


*The time limit:
24:00 March 10 2010 (Japan time GMT + 9:00)

*Prize
A $50 Amazon gift card for 1 people

*How will the winners be chosen?
By drawing lots.



Thank you very much,


Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Wed Mar 03 16:16:10 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/392736 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/392736 lang-8 staff Wed Mar 03 16:16:10 UTC 2010
いつもLang-8をご利用頂き誠に有難うございます。
心よりお礼申し上げます。

今回はTOEICさんとの合同キャンペーンの告知です。

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Lang-8で英語トレーニングをしている皆様
皆様、TOEICテストはご存知のことと思います。
そうです、リスニングとリーディングセクションがあり、結果が10～990のスコアで表示される、あのテストです。

このTOEICに、スピーキング力とライティング力を測ることのできるTOEIC SWテスト（TOEICスピーキングテスト/ライティングテスト）があることはご存知でしたでしょうか？
例えば、このような感じの問題が出題されます。



----------------------------問題------------------------------------------



Respond to the e-mail as if you worked at a distribution department and you received the items. In your e-mail, describe ONE problem that you have had with the items and make ONE request.

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FROM： John Williams

TO： Ms. Ito

SUBJECT： Order shipment

SENT： February 10, 2010
Thank you for using Bobco brand products.

We are pleased to announce that your order of 1,000 pieces of KB2700 keyboards was shipped today. The order is scheduled to be delivered on December 6. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your continued patronage.

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※この問題は実際の出題内容ではありません
＜Let’s try！　プレゼントキャンペーン＞

さあ、上の問題に挑戦してみてください。

下の投稿フォームから、解答をご投稿いただけます。

ご投稿いただくと、編集部で優秀な投稿を3つ選び、『TOEIC スピーキングテスト/ライティングテスト公式ガイド（練習問題2回分収録、定価2,940円）』をプレゼントいたします。
さらに抽選で10名様に、英語に関するクイズを集めたTOEIC30周年記念ノベルティブック『One minute Q&Q』をプレゼントいたします！　
ぜひご投稿ください！


*********************投稿はこちらから***********************************





https://v.toeic.or.jp/v/?VID=user.enquete.Index&OP=top&EID=29312854737





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※投稿に対して採点は行いません。
※Lang-8のユーザーIDは「プロフィール確認」よりご覧いただけます。
http://lang-8.com/profiles/self

※応募受付期間2010年3月12日(金)24時まで
※審査期間　応募受付終了から約2週間
※発表　審査終了後Lang-8上で発表

※英語学習者対象の企画です。This campaign is only for English learners.
書く力・話す力を測れるTOEIC SWテスト。

Lang-8で磨いた英語力を試すにはぴったりのテストです。

一度あなたのライティング力・スピーキング力を測ってみてください！　今の弱点や次の目標が見えてくるはずです。
TOEIC SWテスト特集サイトはこちら（上のような問題をたくさん掲載しています）

http://www.toeic.or.jp/square/prsw/?eno=3220


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今後もLang-8を何卒宜しくお願い申し上げます。


Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Posted at Thu Feb 11 05:35:16 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/368857 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/368857 lang-8 staff Thu Feb 11 05:35:16 UTC 2010

Thank you for using Lang-8.
This is Yangyang.

I think it is hard to think the topic what you should write in Lang-8 entries.
So I decided to collaborate with http://sugoren.com/ (There are many date of Japanese love.) and provide one of topic of entries.

If you are interested in this, please write your opinion in your entry.
(Of course in the language you are learning, and it is nice if you also write in your native language after that.)

Here are the questions and some date of Japanese.


Q1 Who should pay for the their first date, men or women?

73% of Japanese men said they will pay.
http://girl.sugoren.com/report/post_293.php


Q2.How can you answer the question: "Does he like me?"

Japanese women feel " He likes me" in the following situations.
・He definitely noticed me
・When being asked to go on a date many times.
・When being asked about what type she likes.
・When being asked about ex-boyfriends.


Q3 What will you do when your loves fails?

Japanese women will do the following things.
・Cry
・Throw away photos, presents and all things with his memories
・Delete all e-mails/messages from him.

http://girl.sugoren.com/report/post_440.php


Please add topic tags with "sugoren" when you write a entries.
Then it will be easy to find.

http://lang-8.com/journals/search?tag=sugoren

*sugoren.com will collect statics on the result of your answers for their site, if you add the tag sugoren.


Thank you very much,


Yangyang
Lang-8 staff



Best 20 sites(Japanese)
http://lang-8.com/pr

Posted at Sun Feb 07 07:45:12 UTC 2010
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/364101 http://www.lang-8.com/4/journals/364101 lang-8 staff Sun Feb 07 07:45:12 UTC 2010