Welcome to Cool English on Steemit!
Introcuding Myself and Cool English
Hey Steemians! Nice to meet you, I'm Bill. Actually, I've already been on Steemit for quite some time with another account, so this is my second self-introduction. The reason being that this account is dedicated to my English learning website, Cool English. I didn't really want to mix ESL learning posts with my other content. It's just messy that way.
What Is Cool English?
Cool English is a site for Japanese people who want to learn how native speakers really speak English. I started Cool English a couple of years ago as a source of natural English input for Japanese English learners. I try to focus on English that people actually use in conversation, and write the articles in a conversational style. It's been a semi-successful site, but if you've ever tried to do a website and get ranked in Google, you know how hard it can be. That's why I'm moving all present and future content exclusively to Steemit, and ditching the website, at least in its present form. I may do a new version of the site once with an embedded Steem feed, if I feel it necessary.
Potential To Introduce Steemit to over 30,000 People Per Month
You might be wondering why I chose the name Cool English. While doing keyword research for another website with the Google Keyword Planner, I just happened to come across it (in Japanese, かっこいい英語), and I noticed it was getting over 30,000 searches a month. So I decided to build a niche site targeted at that search term. Over time the site has built up traffic, sometimes as many as 200 unique visitors a day, with quite a few posts on the first page of Google. But I think I can do better by moving the content to Steemit.
Hopefully, I'll be getting the word out to 30,000 or more people per month that Steemit is the place to be to make money learning English, in addition to making money creating, reading, and curating other content. I want to see the Japanese community here grow as fast as the Korean community has been lately.
Get Paid To Learn English!!!
I'm going to be promoting the Cool English Steemit Blog as a site where English learners have the chance to get paid to learn English. There are all kinds of free English study sites on the web, but Cool English will be one of the first, if not the first, to allow people to make money while studying, through the power of Steemit, the only social media site that actually pays people to blog, comment, and vote on content.
English & 日本語
All of the articles I write will be both English & Japanese in one post (except for this one). Unfortunately, I only speak English and Japanese, so if you speak another language and are interested in translating articles into your language, hit me up!
Cool English on the blockchain... It's gonna be awesome for English learners!
If you're an English learner, I'm looking forward to helping you improve your English! If you're a native English speaker, well, I hope you find something of value as well. Maybe you can pick up some Japanese!
If you see any mistakes in my Japanese (or my English, God forbid!), let me know! We're all learners here. We all make mistakes. And we all progress.
Follow me here on Steemit to improve your English while earning Steem. You can also follow Cool English on Twitter and Facebook.
Stay tuned for more posts!