150+ members - another milestone!

[greytop]

Well done Ben and Marina. Don't know how you manage to fit it all in but thanks from us out here in the virtual world.
Brian A. (greytop) from North Costa Blanca

[Brian]

Hear hear! Congrats NFS, Marina, and Ben!

[jessica]

Hear hear! Congrats NFS, Marina, and Ben!:clap:

i'll raise my glass to that!:cheers: cheers, you two! haha.

[Ben]

Thanks everyone! Let's see if we can get to 200 by the end of the month!!!

[Marbella]

I have an 11 year old son (12 tomorrow!) who would like to chat on the forum with other children in Spanish. I don't know how this would work but he could start a children only thread and see how it goes?

The subject definitely does not have to be Spanish related because I know he would particularly like to talk to children in the US about life there. All things 'American' really fascinate him at the moment.

So, if you have children learning Spanish who might enjoy the slow pace of conversation on the forum please post and when we return next week I'll let him sign up. Spanish is a core subject at his school so he might be able to persuade others to join too.

[Edith]

Well done Ben and Marina. Don't know how you manage to fit it all in but thanks from us out here in the virtual world.
Brian A. (greytop) from North Costa Blanca

Hear hear! I only discovered this site a couple of weeks ago but I already love it. Congratulations, and keep those podcasts coming! :)

Edith

The Netherlands

[Ben]

I have an 11 year old son (12 tomorrow!) who would like to chat on the forum with other children in Spanish. I don't know how this would work but he could start a children only thread and see how it goes?
Sounds like a great idea! Maybe the thing to do is to start a thread with an appropriate subject in the Spanish section of the forum, something like 'Tengo 11 años...' or whatever, and if this takes off we could seperate off another section of the forum especially....

And thanks Edith too!

[Marbella]

Maybe the thing to do is to start a thread with an appropriate subject in the Spanish section of the forum, something like 'Tengo 11 años...' or whatever


Thanks, will do that next weekend.

[richardksa]

Great! Spanish at MY level!!!!!!!http://qsmile.com/qsimages/8.gif I promise I will work harder!!!

[gary]

59 users online yesterday - and we look on track for 200 members by the end of the month

Exponential growth - hope your servers up to it ben

[Ben]

So do I! All vey very exciting!

[Marbella]

Thanks everyone! Let's see if we can get to 200 by the end of the month!!!

1 more required in the next 24 hours.

[Ben]

2, sorry, I deleted a new user with the email address ph1976entermine@usa.com before the auto-spam started... nearly there though!!!

[Marbella]

2, sorry, I deleted a new user with the email address ph1976entermine@usa.com before the auto-spam started... nearly there though!!!

Ah! Well spotted.

[greytop]

Yihaaaaa!

[Alan]

Yeah, but most don't post :( What can be done to improve that?

[Marbella]

Yeah, but most don't post :( What can be done to improve that?

That is true, could be for any number of reasons though. It does seem to be the same old faces on here which could put newcomers off i.e. makes it look a bit too clubby. Time will tell.

[Ben]

I think it is a factor on any forum, nothing to worry about. There is always a percentage that post regularly and some that register then never post. With time the number of posters will always increase.

[guapo]

Wikipedia has something interesting to say on the topic of lurkers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurkers) - people who read a forum/newgroup but rarely participate. As a lifelong lurker I don't consider this a bad thing at all. In fact in the good old days it used to be considered good netiquette to lurk for a while before posting.

[richardksa]

Alan, to (casi) quote Abe Lincoln: Sometimes it is better to not post and be thought a fool, than posting - and proving it. (In no way of course could this possibly apply to very erudite posters to the forum) ;)

[Alan]

Alan, to (casi) quote Abe Lincoln: Sometimes it is better to not post and be thought a fool, than posting - and proving it. (In no way of course could this possibly apply to very erudite posters to the forum) ;)

Urm, I had to look up erudite. Does that apply to me then?

[Brian]

Urm, I had to look up erudite. Does that apply to me then?

It's ok. Richard used his thesaurus feature to dig up that one, because "smart" just didn't cut it in this occasion! ;)

Just teasing, Richard.