I would never have thought of following a foreign language blog, but I will have to give it a try. It’s interesting how you managed to give recommendations simply by sharing your experiences.

I like that they’re promoting reading/commenting on blogs in other languages. The English-speaking blogosphere interlinks a lot but there doesn’t seem to be so much linkage from English-speaking blogs back to non-English blogs, though there’s a lot of interesting stuff going on out there. I’ve been experimenting a bit with doing a “non-English blog roundup” based on a few blogs out of the languages I can muddle my way through (I’m overdue in writing another one actually), but I don’t know how useful it actually is to people who don’t know the original language to get more information.

I love the idea of “unique voice” in commenting. I think Sue Waters and Michele Martin have that, but it’s a hard thing to achieve. I recently finished developing a course for middle school science teachers, and the Subject Matter Expert who did most of the writing has a great personal voice in his writing. It was so much fun to work with him because his writing always sounded “like him.”