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 # Welcome
-**Here are SkyWalking 8 official documentation. You're welcome to join us.**
+**This is the official documentation of SkyWalking 8. Welcome to the SkyWalking community!**
 
-From here you can learn all about **SkyWalking**’s architecture, how to deploy and use SkyWalking, and develop based on SkyWalking contributions guidelines.
+Here you can learn all you need to know about **SkyWalking**’s architecture, understand how to deploy and use SkyWalking, and contribute to the project based on SkyWalking's contributing guidelines.
 
-**NOTICE, SkyWalking 8 uses brand new tracing APIs, it is incompatible with all previous releases.**
+**NOTE: SkyWalking 8 uses brand new tracing APIs which are incompatible with all previous releases.**
 
-- [Concepts and Designs](en/concepts-and-designs/README.md). You'll find the the most important core ideas about SkyWalking. You can learn from here if you want to understand what is going on under our cool features and visualization.
+- [Concepts and Designs](en/concepts-and-designs/README.md). You'll find the the core logic behind SkyWalking. You may start from here if you want to understand what is going on under our cool features and visualization.
 
-- [Setup](en/setup/README.md). Guides for installing SkyWalking in different scenarios. As a platform, it provides several ways of the observability.
+- [Setup](en/setup/README.md). A guide to installing SkyWalking for different use cases. It is an observability platform that supports multiple observability modes.
 
-- [UI Introduction](en/ui/README.md). Introduce the UI usage and features. 
+- [UI Introduction](en/ui/README.md). An introduction to the UI components and their features. 
 
-- [Contributing Guides](en/guides/README.md). Guides are for PMC member, committer or new contributor. Here, you can find how to start contributing.
+- [Contributing Guides](en/guides/README.md). If you are a PMC member, a committer, or a new contributor, learn how to start contributing with these guides!
 
-- [Protocols](en/protocols/README.md). Protocols show the communication ways between agents/probes and backend. Anyone interested in uplink telemetry data should definitely read this.
+- [Protocols](en/protocols/README.md). The protocols show how agents/probes and the backend communicate with one another. Anyone interested in uplink telemetry data should definitely read this.
 
-- [FAQs](en/FAQ/README.md). A manifest of already known setup problems, secondary developments experiments. When you are facing a problem, check here first.
+- [FAQs](en/FAQ/README.md). A manifest of known issues with setup and secondary developments processes. Should you encounter any problems, check here first.
 
 
-In addition, you might find these links interesting:
+You might also find these links interesting:
 
-- The latest and old releases are all available at [Apache SkyWalking release page](http://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/). The change logs are [here](../CHANGES.md).
+- The latest and old releases are all available at [Apache SkyWalking release page](http://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/). The change logs can be found [here](../CHANGES.md).
 
 - [SkyWalking WIKI](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SKYWALKING/Home) hosts the context of some changes and events.
 
-- You can find the speaking schedules at Conf, online videos and articles about SkyWalking in [Community resource catalog](https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Community).
+- You can find the conference schedules, video recordings, and articles about SkyWalking in the [community resource catalog](https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Community).
 
-We're always looking for help improving our documentation and codes, so please don’t hesitate to [file an issue](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/issues/new) 
-if you see any problem. 
-Or better yet, submit your own contributions through pull request to help make them better.
+We're always looking for help to improve our documentation and codes, so please don’t hesitate to [file an issue](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/issues/new) if you see any problems. 
+Or better yet, directly contribute by submitting a pull request to help us get better!