2nd post! Blogs: A method of improvng one's english?

It is, theoretically, possible to improve one's language, and specifically, writing skills by blogging. However, it is imperative to have somebody with a high language proficiency level available to check what has been written. If not, the blogger will just keep making the same mistakes, and, worse, become set in his or her ways, making it even harder to be corrected once the mistakes have been - belatedly - discovered.

it may be best to join an english language blogging community, where there are many people with the same purpose - to improve their english. There, the community supports its members and it is easier to learn when there are people to correct one's mistakes and answer any questions that are posed. It is almost like a classroom, only a virtual one, and correction may not be immediate, depending on who's online. An example of english learning blog communities is the english blog. There are also bloggers who set up their own blogs, and ask for people to help them correct grammatical mistakes, etc. However, these aren't so successful, as people may or may not give helpful comments. For example, English learning blog is written by Emilio, who published posts, but never seemed to improve much. The motivation is very obvious, however, it just wasn't very effective without a constant group of people to help him out. The blog's last post is dated the 6th of December 2006, and his english still wasnt very good, which proves that he
a) gave up, and
b) didnt improve much.

The thing about blogging is that it is fun to read other blogs as well. Assuming they are all written in perfect english, reading other blogs is an entertaining way to learn improve one's grasp of english, subsequently improving one's writing skills (larger vocabulary, proper grammar, etc). An individual can then, with his or her new knowledge, write posts using what was learned, therefore practicing, and commiting the knowledge to memory. This is how writing skills are improved by blogging, in my humble opinion.

As a blogger of sorts, i have also found many blogs that i find extremely interesting and i visit them practically daily. Amongst them are Perez Hilton's celebrity gossip blog, and Katie Macalister's blog (one of my favourite authors).

And that's all for now! =D