So, I keep trying to learn Russian. It's not an easy language. It fights you, it doesn't want to be learned by outsiders.

However, I've started my 3rd blog on a new website: www.lang-8.com. This one on MySpace is for random thoughts, the second is on livejournal is for writing notes (a must for anyone who is pre- or post-published), and now the third one is for writing in Russian.

So, what does this have to do with you, curious reader?

Well, if you have any lanugage that you really want to learn, I suggest checking the site out. You see, the whole website is built to help you learn a lanugage. All you have to do is post a blog in the language you're trying to learn. Native speakers will read it and tell you what you screwed up. To thank them, read their attempts to write in English and tell them where they screwed up.

It's a great concept, even though the website is still in Beta format. And becuase the site is hosted in Japan, some of the English is a little confusing. But they're fixing that fast, as more people write to them and have it corrected.

Right now, to see the site, you need to be a user. But that will be changing in the next month.  But really, do you want wait that long? My goal is to write 1 blog a week until I can actually congegate some of these verbs faster. It takes me forever to write a 5-sentence blog.