I hope everyone is enjoying the summer weather wherever you are. Of course, those of you in the southern hemisphere are not enjoying the summer at all since it is winter where you are. Although, I would imagine that winter in much of the southern hemisphere is more comfortable than summer in some of the hotter more humid parts of the northern hemisphere.
Anyway, that's enough about the weather. Here at The Linguist we continue to work on a number of new initiatives aimed at increasing our community of linguists. Sean has been making additions to the Community Blog, including this recent post of the video from the seminar Steve gave this past April in English and Japanese. Enjoy it and send us any comments!
We are continuing to refine our new version and are finally testing an alpha version of the new system. It's going to be great! There are still many wrinkles to work out but don't worry, all of you potential beta testers. You know who you are! As soon as we have a workable version we will get it out to you.
One small improvement you may notice is that we now show you how many words you are allowed to write as well as how many words you have written this period. Some of you, especially new members, were asking for this feature. One thing to note is that those of you who have purchased additional writing correction will not see your extra words of writing in this total. Your additional words of writing correction will continue to be tracked outside the system.
On the issue of additional services, many of you have been asking if it is possible to pay for additional speaking events, over and above the number included in your membership level. Therefore, we would like to know how many of you would be interested in paying for extra speaking events on top of your regular monthly membership fee. Please tell us in the following survey. Thank you for your response.
