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I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

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Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

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Gaiyara Offline
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Learn Chinese Here

http://www.worldlearnerchinese.com/

I feel really bad for these people. One of best language learning sites I've ever seen, and they get like 0 activity. You can sign up free to get access to dozens of podcasts, and if you get a subscription, you get access to tons of other shit.

What should Gaiyara do Onii-chan? ♡

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Re: Learn Chinese Here

Wow! I thought I was the only one who knew about this site. They are great! Their lessons get to the point! I chat with the people there a lot and think they really like to teach Chinese. I don't think it's a fad for them because I used to listen to another BIG site that also teaches Chinese and they spend too much time trying to be cool. Glad I'm not the only one at WLC.
03-17-2009 01:18 AM
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You joined to say that?

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