Address Valérie’s feedback

Author: julienrf

blog/_posts/2022-01-19-learn-scala.md

@@ -5,58 +5,68 @@ by: Julien Richard-Foy, Vincent Derouand, and Valérie Pedroni (Scala Center)
 title: "Learn Scala"
 ---
 
-Happy new year 2022! The beginning of the year is a good time to refresh 
-your programming skills. We want to use this opportunity to report on what 
-happened on the MOOCs in 2021, and to share our plans for 2022.
+Happy new year to everyone! We hope 2022 will be of great joy, and will be a 
+source of fruitful collaboration between the Scala Center and the community!
+
+As you might be listing your 2022 goals, why not include Scala in it? 
+Refresh your programming skills, acquire new knowledge, and get a new 
+certificate!
+
+In this post, we remind you of our online courses designed for both beginners 
+and experienced programmers, we report on what happened in 2021, and we share 
+our plans for 2022.
 
 ## 2021 Retrospective
 
-In 2021, with the release of Scala 3 we updated most of our MOOCs to Scala 3:
+In 2021, with the release of Scala 3 we updated nearly all of our MOOCs to 
+Scala 3:
 
 - [Functional Programming Principles in Scala],
 - [Functional Program Design],
 - [Parallel Programming],
 - [Programming Reactive Systems] with Akka.
 
 We also kept the Scala 2 versions of these courses online, but we observed 
-that the majority of the learners took the Scala 3 version (e.g., 97% in the 
+that the majority of the learners took the Scala 3 versions (e.g., 97% in the 
 case of Functional Programming Principles in Scala).
 
 The only courses that still use Scala 2 are the courses that depend on Spark,
 which does not yet fully support Scala 3 (see below our plans in this regard).
 
 We also published a new course: [Effective Programming in Scala]. This 
-course teaches programmers everything they need to be ready to work in Scala.
+course teaches programmers all they need to be ready to work in Scala.
 We are proud to report that this course was one of the [100 most popular 
 courses of the year 2021][rank] (out of the 2900 courses created in 2021 on 
-all the MOOCs platform).
+various MOOC platforms). Thanks to Effective Programming in Scala, we believe 
+that hiring should not be a concern for companies using Scala.
 
-In total, in 2021 more than three thousand people completed a Scala online 
-course! Congratulations to them!
+In total, in 2021, more than three thousand people completed a Scala online 
+course! Thank you to them for trusting us as their teachers, and 
+congratulations on acquiring new knowledge!
 
-We have recently re-organized the website to have a
+Finally, we have recently re-organized the website to have a
 [dedicated page](https://docs.scala-lang.org/online-courses) presenting the 
 Scala courses from the Scala Center.
 
 ## Plans for 2022
 
-In 2022, we plan to update the Spark courses to Spark 3.2 and Scala 2.13:
+In 2022, we plan to update the Spark courses to Spark 3.2 and Scala 3:
 
 - [Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark],
 - [Scala Capstone Project].
 
+Additionally, we plan to experiment with alternative online learning models.
 So far, all our courses are self-paced and the assignments grading is fully 
 automated. This model is perfect for autonomous learners, but we believe 
 there is also a need for a complementary model, where learners would get 
 code reviews from experts, and one-to-one sessions with instructors. This 
-year, we plan to publish some of our courses under that complementary model.
+year, we plan to publish some of our courses under such a complementary model.
 
 ## Acknowledgements
 
 The Scala Center is committed to providing high-quality, free, Scala 
-educational material. This work would not be possible without the support of 
-the learners who pay to get a certificate of completion at the end of the 
-courses. We are grateful to them!
+educational material. We are grateful to all the learners who pay to get
+certificates of completion. Our work would not be possible without your support.
 
 [Functional Programming Principles in Scala]: https://coursera.org/learn/scala-functional-programming
 [Functional Program Design]: https://coursera.org/learn/scala-functional-program-design