你们应该加一个聊天室。。你们别人觉得什么？

The founders should add a chatroom.. what do you guys/girls think?

hm, personally I'm not into stuff like that. I think this forum is enough, nice and simple. I like the feel of this small community, although I think if there will be more users, this little thing might not be enough anymore.

我的意思是，这个网址非常帮我们学习中文，但是很多人不住在中国，所以他们没有机会跟中国人谈。

What I mean is, this website helps us learn Chinese, but most people probably don't live in China, and thus have no way to chat with a Chinese person or others who know the language and thus can help each other improve.

I live here and so I can practice, but I get bored sitting here doing the practice but not getting the chance to practice the new words the website is teaching me. A chat function would be quite nice in my opinion...

If you're talking about building a chat room hosted on Skritter, I am against it. Web site chat rooms are generally pretty awful from a usability point of view compared with Skype, Messenger, QQ, etc.

If you want, we can create a Skritter group in Skype (or whatever) and then you can use that to chat. Even better, we can chat using audio if we like.

As for "most people probably don't live in China, and thus have no way to chat with a Chinese person", just go on Skype or QQ and you will find several billion Chinese people to chat with.

James

oh, thanks for your clarification sweisbrot. For practicing purposes it wouldn't be bad, but I agree with jww1066 that there are more than enough chat media out there, we could do a qq, skype and/or msn group or something. I don't agree about the audio though since I am on Skritter for writing/reading exercise, not for speaking exercise.

PS is it exercice or exercise? I need a skritter for english as well haha.

I brought this sort of thing up at the user chat we had, and people weren't into it. Perhaps the idea can be revisited later when we have many more users with which to fill such a 聊天室.

how many users do you have right now? You said you could create a Skype or QQ group.. that makes me think you don't have that many yet :p

Heh, trying to fit everyone in on a group chat would be counting on not many people showing up. (A fair assumption, perhaps, given people's preferences for asynchronicity.)

How many users? Let's just say we have enough users that it takes many hours every day to talk to you all (emails, feedback, forum, blog, Wave, etc.). I should count myself lucky that no one prefers to use the phone.