Lang-8 Official Blog

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

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.