User talk:Yakowenko

Welcome to Wikibooks, Yakowenko!  First steps tutorial Wikibooks is for freely-licensed collaboratively-developed textbooks. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing and assume good faith about the intentions of others. Remember, this is a wiki, so you're allowed to change just about anything, and changes can be made easily. Come introduce yourself to everyone, and let us know what interests you.

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I noticed your recent edits on the Chinese wikibooks. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have many active contributors. Writing language textbooks is a long and difficult process, not all contributors have the patience and some bite off a bit more than they can chew. That was the case with the Japanese wikibook when I started contributing to it nearly a year ago. Thanks for your contributions so far.

If you and your teacher would like to work on this wikibook to use it in your classes, that could be of great help. Some books here at Wikibooks are also written largely or in part by students in a course, under the oversight of a teacher.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Note also the various Reading rooms where you can get a wider audience for your comments or requests for assistance. Good luck with your studies, welcome to Wikibooks and happy editing! --Swift (talk) 06:29, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Swift. We probably won't use this for our class, because we are already well into the papyrus version of a book.  And since I'm not fluent, my own contributions will probably be limited.  But I'll improve what I can when I get around to it.  :-)  --Yakowenko (talk) 21:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)