Dear Lang-8 users,

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.

Today we have a good new for people who are learning Japanese.

Online Skype language learning web service “Cafetalk” and Lang-8 are doing a campaign now. You can receive up to two Japanese lessons for free.

The details is as following.

Offer period:

11/16/2011 – 11/30/2011

Special Offer 1:

Sign up for a membership from our “campaign page” and receive a “monitor coupon” to get your first Japanese lesson for free.

Special Offer 2:

Tell us what you think! Share your experience, your thoughts on the lesson on Lang-8 or your own blog.

And you will receive another “monitor coupon” ! Send us the URL where you have posted your comment and we will send another “monitor coupon” Send to info@cafetalk.com

>>The Campaign page is here<<

We have decided to stop holding the Lang-8 International exchange party this time.
It is because the member attending the party did not reached enough number.

We are very sorry for announce this.

Yangyang
Lang-8 staff

Dear Lang-8 users,

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 themachine.

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

Dear Lang-8 users.

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

Hello,

Thank you very much for using Lang-8.
Today I want to introduce a service.

Nameans is a name translation specialty website, a specialty site
unprecedented in the world.
We provide a service that investigates the meanings of words in
foreign languages no matter what it is you’re naming, from baby names
to product names and company names.
We are looking for translators in preparation for the opening of the
Nameans website this spring.

http://www.nameans.com/recruit/index.html

[Title]

[11/28] An International exchange party in Tokyo vol.3

[Summary]

Lang-8 is a  Language Exchange web service used by more than 190,000 people.

Lang-8 will hold a real international exchange party – not just something online.

We think you’ll be able to find foreign friends and language exchange partners there.

We will have events that will make it easy to get to know new people.

There will also be soft drinks, alcohol(BEER,Cocktail), and some food.

＊Sorry no one under 20 admitted　

[Contact us]

party@lang-8.com

[Date]

Sunday November 28 2010

18:00 ~ 21:00 pm(You can enter at pm 18:00~)

[Participation fees]

/Early Birds/

SALES END: Nov 26 2010
Japanese 4,000YEN
Non-Japanese people 3,000 YEN

/Late Birds/

SALES END: Nov 28 2010
Japanese 5,000Yen
Non-Japanese people 4,000 YEN

Payment Method: Cash, Paypal, Bank transfer

[Limited to the first 120 people who sign up.]

Participation will be allowed based on the order of applications received.

We’ll respond to your application within three days.

[Place]

CAFE　KEL
東京都江東区新砂1-10-5

[Access]

few minute from 3 exits of toyocho station.

[Google Map]

大きな地図で見る

********Application*********

Please register from here.

• NON JAPANESE
• APANESE

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Thank you

It has been a year and 2 months since we had started our premium service and we only accepted PayPal and Yahoo!wallet(Yahoo!Japan’s service). But actually many people prefer other payment methods instead of them. Today, we would like to announce we start accepting credit card payments.

• Prices are ¥525 JPY (VAT included).
• Premium members who choose the credit card payment are charged on the 25th of each month.
• If users want to stop the premium service, they can always do it from the premium account page.
• charge rules are here :

1. registered on 12/20 and sent a stop request on 2/19 :
   - charged on 12/25 and 1/25. The user is a premium user until 2/20.
2. registered on 1/10 and sent a stop request on 2/20 :
   - already charged on 1/25 and will be charged on 2/25. The user is a premium user until 3/10.
3. registered on 1/31 and sent a stop request on 2/10 :
   - will be charged on 2/25. The user is a premium user until 2/28 instead of 3/3 and 2/31.

Also we started accepting convenience store payment to send a premium gift. But this can be available only in japan, which is why we didn’t write about it on this blog entry.
Please go premium if you love Lang-8. You have a question? just leave a comment.

[Title]

[10/2] An International exchange party in Tokyo vol.2

[Summary]

Lang-8 is a  Language Exchange web service used by more than 180,000 people.

Lang-8 will hold a real international exchange party – not just something online.

We think you’ll be able to find foreign friends and language exchange partners there.

We will have events that will make it easy to get to know new people.

There will also be soft drinks, alcohol(BEER,Cocktail), and some snacks.

[Date]

Saturday  October 2 2010

7:10 pm ~ 9:30 pm(You can enter at pm 7:10~)

[Participation fees]

/Early Birds/

SALES END:  Sep 24  2010
Japanese 4,000Yen
Non-Japanese people 3,500 YEN

/Late Birds/

SALES END:  Oct 2  2010
Japanese 5,000Yen
Non-Japanese people 4,500 YEN　→　3500 YEN

Payment Method: Cash, Paypal, Bank transfer

[Limited to the first 100 people who sign up.]

Participation will be allowed based on the order of applications received.

We’ll respond to your application within three days.

[Place]

東京都中央区銀座5-5-14
GINZA GATES  T’s Ginza 11F

[Access]

minute from B7 exits of Ginza station.

[Google Map]

大きな地図で見る

********Application*********

If you don’t have a paypal account or don’t know how to order, please register from here.

＊Sorry no one under 20 admitted　/　Contact us party@lang-8.com

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Thank you

Thanks for all Lang-8 users’ supports.
Today, we would like to tell you something great. Lang-8 has been nominated as one of Asia’s Top 50 Apps! According to the official page, the 50 apps with the most votes in total — not by country — will make the cut. Voting closes on 31 Aug 2010. Top 50 results are announced on Sept 1 2010.

Now please vote for us!

if we are selected as Asia’s Top 50 Apps, we will get listed in the Asia’s Top 50 Apps Directory, which is distributed to 4,000 attendees at both Accelerate 2010 and Singtel i.Luminate 2010. Also, we will get nominated as Asia’s Top 10 Apps. (The top 10 will be selected by a panel of experts.)
We have over 17,0000 users right now. And if we get well known, we can get more users. In fact, you can enjoy learning even more.

Please click here to vote!

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.

watch?v=TrG5hjStNZo

watch?v=ykTbEPSjT5A

watch?v=qo7IZV6735Y

watch?v=hTon1pTTv-0

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