First Try in 2016

Yesterday night, I was reading over what had been posted on italki's weibo like usual. "Language Challenge" suddenly caught my attention, and I felt more and more inspired. As I was reading it over and over again, something came to my mind, why not give it a shot this time? What is there to afraid of? 
I have friended italki on weibo for a certain period of time. (sentence is hard to understand) I was attracted by the websites name, "italki". Based on my understanding, the letter "i" looks like a person. So it is like two people talking with each other——"i" talks to "i". Also, the letter "i" has the same pronunciation as a Chinese character, 爱, which means love——I love to talk to other people. Since then, I have been continued to see, learn, using the new knowledge that has been posted here. I found it quite enjoyable. The things that have been shared are interesting, useful and practical. It is a lot more fun compared to the traditional way of learning a language. I have also noticed that there are some excellent teachers here, and everyone can take lessons to get the opportunity to improve their language skills through talking with a native speaker.
But that was it, I didn't go any further, I didn't register an account here. I certainly didn't make the most of this platform to learn languages. I kept myself from this site until yesterday when I saw the "Language Challenge". It also reminded me of my experience learning French. I finally started to enjoy learning it recently. I used to just think it was too hard and I didn't feel like engaging into it at all. So I asked myself; if I truly love learning English, why waste such a great chance at learning? Not to mention it will probably be the most amazing thing that I will experienced in 2016!
So I'm new here, with lots of excitement, expectations and hope to live a different 2016.

P.S. I enjoyed writing this first article. It feels so great to share things in another language! If there is any mistakes, please feel free to tell me. Much appreciated!

Really good writing, just some minor mistakes :) I hope you keep on learning with this great attitute of yours.

correction part 2.... 

But that's it. I didn't go any further. I didn't register an account here, and I certainly didn't make the most of this platform to learn languages. And it went like this until yesterday when I saw the "Language Challenge". It also reminded me of my experience of learning French. I finally started to enjoy learning it these days. I used to just think it was so hard and I didn't feel like engaging into it at all. So I asked myself, if I truly love learning English, why waste such a great chance? Not to mention it will probably be the most amazing things that I will experienced in 2016! 

So I'm new here, with lots of excitement, expectations and hope to live a different 2016. 

'It went like this' - is grammatically correct, but it might be more natural to say: it went on like this

It also reminded me ... - what does 'It' refer to here? the language challenge or 'knowing about italki, but not using it'

I finally started to enjoy learning it these days - what is "it"? French, English?

P.S. I enjoy writing this first article. It feels so great to share things in another language! If there is  are any mistakes, please feel free to tell me. Much appreciated!

First Try in 2016

read something over and over again = read it more than one time.

A more natural expression: What is there to be afraid of? 

I have friended italki on weibo for a certain period of time. I was attracted by its name, "italki". Based on my understanding, the letter "i" looks like a person. So it is like two people are talking with each other——"i" "talk" to "i". Also, the letter "i" has the same pronunciation as a Chinese character, 爱, which means love——I love to talk to others. Since then, I have been keeping kept on seeing, learning and using the new knowledge ideas that has have been posted there. I found it to be quite enjoyable. The things that has have been shared are interesting, useful and practical. It is a lot more fun compared to the traditional way of learning language. And I have noticed that there are some excellent teachers here, and everyone can take lessons and get an theopportunity to improve language skills through talking with a native speaker.

'for a long time' is the normal phrase, we either give 'a long time' OR give a specific number: for x years, for 3 days...

You can say  'use knowledge', but usually we 'have knowledge' and we 'use ideas' - I have found that Chinese speakers tend to use 'knowledge' more than English speakers, so it's a good idea to start using other words instead.

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