Is perfect English essential to your blogging success?

The answer: NO

I’ve never considered myself as an individual who has mastered the English language, but I still blog, as I believe the main objective of blogging is to get your messages out within an environment you see fit. Of course, realistically speaking, if your command of English is on the bad side, then you could probably revert to using the language you’re comfortable with.

There are all kinds of people in this world who are blog lurkers, who instead of appreciating the content right in front of them, decides to fulfill one’s self gratification by acknowledging your “level” of English.

Who cares? Here’s why …

1. People blog. A gajilion people on the Net blogs, regardless of where they live and how they grew up. So expect people with poor command of English blogging their asses off. If you ask me, as long as the messages are clear, you get the idea of the blog, that’s all matters. Some even go as far as to avoid the idea of word blogging completely and decides to embark upon different blogging methods such as vlogging (videos), photoblogging, etc so as to avoid writing. The whole idea here is, as long as you think that your messages go through as how you intended to be, don’t worry about it. You can ask for your readers’ feedback or simply judge yourself by reading your readers’ comments.
2. Quality. If you have quality posts in your blog, readers will go as far as cracking their head trying to break the code in your messages, even if you’ve thrown in 10 different languages in one sentence. Not that I recommend messing up with your readers’ head, but in a worst case scenario, this probably will happen.
3. Change. Who says that you need to write to blog? Too lazy to use your fingers to knock on the small pieces on your keyboard? You could probably take out your mobile or your camera and start taking pictures or videos and make them the main content of your blog instead. In this case instead of having people focusing on your command of English, you might get flooded with a different touch of criticism from a different angle, e.g. Your camera sucks! Or your skills suck! etc. Well, that’s life, you can’t get everybody to sit in the same room as you.
4. Copy, Paste & Add. If you’re the worst of the bunch – too lazy to write, too lazy to take pictures or vidoes, then you can have legal plagiarizing. What I mean by legal copy and pasting is you can copy a small portion of somebody else’s post and label it as an excerpt, and of course don’t forget to give the credit where its due and link back to the original post. Nothing wrong by doing this. In certain cases, other bloggers are nice enough to allow you to have their complete post copy pasted to your blog, as long as you honor the original structure of the article / content. And it doesn’t hurt to get in touch with them prior to your CTRL+C and CTRL+V mission. Of course if possible, add your own content on top of the stuffs you’ve copied and pasted to make it more interesting. Maybe this time you can say – “What? Join the club, my English is as sucky as his!” or “You really gotta get yourself a better camera” etc. Payback time, only this time around, you’re having fun.
5. Majority. Always lean yourself towards what the majority thinks and sees in your blog. Don’t try to change the whole world just because a frog jumped in and start dictating what you should do and improve. Most of the times these frogs will come and go leaving useless feedbacks, so just ignore them. But if you think that the criticisms are constructive regardless of the level of insult and sarcasm, chances are, you can try implementing these changes in the coming future as you see fit. However, don’t deprive yourself of improvements just because the majority keeps on throwing compliments to you. Improve your blog with the flow of time.

I guess that’s all for today. Happy blogging!