3-rd Anniversary of Englishtips - believe it or not!
Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.61 | Site Announcements | 22 September 2008
Here is the initial Russian version of the message, left on our Forum by the creators of the Site :-)
English translation below (by otherwordly)
THANK YOU, KATRIN and EVGENIY!
Здравствуйте уважаемые посетители. Пишут Вам Евгений и Катрин. Мало кто знает, что сегодня 21 сентября можно отмечать 3 года успешной работы данного портала. Именно 3 года назад, Катрин попросила меня найти ей в сети несколько учебников английского, и я их выложил на свой блог. А потом еще и еще. А через три месяца посетители блога обратились с предложением сделать отдельный сайт. И тогда родился этот сайт. Мы очень рады, что наше детище выросло в такого надежного и стабильного друга для многих изучающих английский. Мы рады, что вы нас поддержали и не бросили в самые трудные минуты работы сайта, а их было не мало. Мы горячо благодарны нынешнему админу, что он сдержал свое обещание, что проект не перейдет на коммерческий уровень а так и останется бесплатным порталом для студентов. Мы очень благодарны что он взял наш проект и сделал из него то, что он есть сейчас. Мы также благодарны тем людям, которые не спали ночами и вместе с нами сканировали учебники, тем педагогам, которые выкладывали свои разработки, которые присылали нам на почту гигабайты материалов и тех кто нам помогал эти гигабайты приводить в красивый удобоваримый вид. Мы поздравляем Вас от всей души. Долгих лет Вам и процветания. То что вы делаете все вместе - это чудо, это неоценимая помощь тысячам изучающих англиский по всему миру.
С днем рождения Вас!
ENGLISH VERSION BY OTHERWORDLY:
HELLO, dear visitors... Greetings from Katrin and Evgenyi! As some of you may know, today we are proud to celebrate the third anniversary since the foundation date. It was three years ago that Katrin asked me to find some English textbooks. I obliged and presented them at my own blog. Then I continued searching for them. Three months later visitors of my blog asked me to launch a special project and I agreed... This decision proved groundbreaking and gave birth to Englishtips! We are delighted to see that our brainchild has developed into such a stable and friendly community for many students of English! We are thankful for your support in going through all hardships,and there were quite a few of them during these years. We are very much obliged to our current admin for keeping his promise and preserving this community free and entirely non-commercial! We are grateful to him for handling this growing community and developing it into what we can see now! We are also grateful to all those people who spent sleepless nights, scanning books together with us, to the teachers, who made materials of their own authorship available here, who e-mailed us gigabytes of materials and to those who helped us make all this stuff user-friendly and easy to download. So live long and prosper, Englishtips! Together we work a miracle and render an invaluable service to thousands of English learners worldwide!
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Here is the initial Russian version of the message, left on our Forum by the creators of the Site :-)![A Deeper Sleep - [15] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow](http://englishtips.org/uploads/posts/2008-06/1213986036_deeper-sleep.jpg "A Deeper Sleep - [15] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow")
