Online Learning Community
The online community I am engaged in now is called "English Water Corner". It is an online community for people in China to practice and improve English. It is free and open for everybody. All the content are user-generated. I just recently joined this community and am still learning what's happening there. The followings are Game Rules of English Water Corner posted on its website. Some of them are very interesting:
1.Speaking Chinese is not allowed here , dont say I am a traitor! You wanna improve English, dont you?
2.Special Attention: Any ribald words are to be banned, those who dare try twice will be pushed into the hell!
3.Meaningless posts (GUAN SHUI),if in English,are not necessarily forbidden,but you had better not waste energy that way!
4.Any forms of advertisements,friendseeking,if in English,are not necessarily forbidden but usually transferred to another forum
5.Any intelligent English fans are to be awarded(plz see "Awarding Systems in EWC") in honor of his/her excellent performacne.
6. We do not encourage "up"ing posts that was opened more than 2 weeks ago. Hope you can realize the inconvenience caused. Thanks 4 your cooperation. ^^
I am also participated in another online community aimed at practicing and improving spoken English. It is actually a English chatting room, but all users are Chinese. It is free too. More than two users can talk with each other simultaneously. Most free messenger software only support one to one communication by voice. More participations are needed to find out the learning problem there (I am sure there is something wrong).
2 Comments:
Wuping,
Why do you assume something is wrong with having more than two people converse? We do it all of the time outside the virtual world. I would think having three people talking would be just like a conference call - we do those all of the time too. There are ways to make sure everyone knows who is talking by saying your name first, for instance, to avoid confusion as to who said what.
Wuping,
Thanks for the post. These seem like good communities--I'm looking forward to hearing more about your interactions with other users. What sort of posts have you made on English Water Corner so far? Is there something you're trying to learning specifically, or are you just trying to get practice? Is there any explicit teaching that happens here? The rules are very interesting.
At your second community, are you meeting new people, or are these people you already know? How much time are you spending there?
--Robb
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