Lang-8 language corrections tutorial...

I recently received a friend request on Lang-8. Now, I've never really used it, and my profile says almost nothing, so I can only guess it's a bit of a fishing attempt. Or maybe it's genuine. I don't know. Since I started trying to meet people (and succeeding!) in person who speak German (my current target language), the idea of random penpals, or people to chat with on Skype, has begun to appeal to me less and less. The problem, as I've mentioned before, is that if I don't have anything in common with the person I'm chatting to, it becomes much harder to sustain the conversation and just the overall effort. As it is, with a fulltime job, long commute and busy extended-family social life, I have little time to maintain frequent contact with my English-speaking friends, let alone anyone else, so I need to choose wisely :-) Contacts I can make at work are an exception, of course, because I can use lunchtime to socialise in another language. This is "free" time which I'm doing my best to put to use!

My current German-speaking contacts include: infrequent, but highly helpful, correspondance with my former German teacher, meeting up occasionally with an Austrian couple I found on CouchSurfing, and an Austrian woman at my work who I've had lunch with once so far, and which looks like being a regular weekly thing (hopefully I'll have a new update on this tomorrow). I would like to improve upon this both because the date upon which I plan to sit the Goethe-Zertifikat B2 rapidly draws ever nearer, but also because I find it refreshing to get a different worldview.

As my "diary" update for the day, I've kept up with my Anki decks, and they are getting easier and quicker to do the more frequently I do them, so that's a real bonus. I planned to do a new exercise from the book Lesetraining B2 this morning, but instead I looked at the last question I worked on (Aufgabe 4) and realised that I have a few words I need to add to my Anki deck. This is really an important part of making real progress on my reading comprehension. And finally, I listened to lesson 15 in Perfectionnement Allemand this morning during my commute, but again I couldn't find the enthusiasm to try to keep up with it. I have seriously contemplated skipping to lesson 16, but I probably really just need to knuckle down and get it over with.

Anyway, to the subject of the post. After getting the friend invitation on Lang-8, I looked at their tutorial on how to correct a post:

http://lang-8.com/help/correction_1

The incorrect sentence starts out as "I think to review the corrections is very important for language learning." The "corrected" sentence? "I think to reviewing the corrections is very important for language learning."

I think to reviewing??? What?

Oh man...

I seem to recall that this is what put me off Lang-8 the first time I looked at it after registering. Or should that be "I seem to recalling that this is what put me off Lang-8 the first time I looked at it after to registering".

Is that shallow of me? Yes, yes it is. So sue me - that's how I roll...