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Chinese in Steps (UK Textbook series)

Catherine :)   September 25th, 2011 3:21p.m.

I'm very new to Skritter, but I've found it very simple and user-friendly, and great to bring my writing up to the standard of my reading and speech. I'm not fully sold yet though - I've yet to see how well it works in tandem with real-life lessons!

One thing that I initially thought would be really handy would be a way to privately message other Skritter users. However, having looked around on the forums at all the other issues you're working on, I understand that this is a totally new system and would be really hard to implement what with security and all the extra features you'd need, so probably isn't high on the agenda.

So, back to the point (sorry!), this was the best way to try and contact another Skritterer (is that a word?!) "grahaml" to ask about a list they've created from my textbook (步步高中文2), and also, to ask if they've started compiling a list for the next textbook (步步高中文3) - to save me the job!

nick   September 27th, 2011 5:51p.m.

Welcome to Skritter, cia09cr! We've built some of what we would need for private messaging; we just need to think about who to allow to message who.

I don't think grahaml is going to make a 步步高中文3 list--he hasn't been around here in a while. But if you want to make it yourself, I think you'll be able to make short work of it with our list editor, hoping that you find it as user-friendly as the rest of the site!

Catherine :)   September 28th, 2011 8:19a.m.

Thanks :)! I've had a look at the list functions and they're pretty easy to use. So I can get around the problem (of the first section of grahaml's list having 300 words!) by remixing 步步高中文2 myself.
And then I might get on to volume 3 after Christmas...

Thanks for all your help, it's really nice to see such a high level of customer support - I hope you guys can keep it up as more people join!

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