Post by LittleGaijin on Oct 6, 2014 14:59:26 GMT
Back in January 2013, a little forum was created to provide a fun and friendly online environment for Japanese learners to come together, meet new people, and practice speaking in Japanese. For the longest time, it was my dream to create and manage a website like "Speak Japanese," and through it I was able to meet so many wonderful people and establish life-long friendships with folks from all over. We all saw so much potential in the website, and in the awesome community within it, but we knew that Speak Japanese could not support our ambitions for it... so, on October 6th, 2013, we decided to create a new, fully functional website (from scratch!) that we could have more control over. It was really nerve-wracking to relocate an entire community like that, and we knew that some of our members would not make the switch! Getting our name out there again was difficult, but we were able to do so thanks to all of you!
Gaiwa wouldn't be possible without all of you, our wonderful members, and we continue to run this site so that we can provide a place for online Japanese learners to come and call "home." You guys are the reason why we do what we do.
For our One Year Anniversary, we'd like to reward some of the members who have stuck with us the longest, and possibly start some contests and giveaways throughout the month of October! Keep up to date about all of that fun stuff through this thread, but for now, I would like to award these following members with the Friend of Gaiwa status!
Gaiwa has come a long way in just one year, and we owe it all to you!
皆様、ありがとうございます！これからもよろしくお願いします！
