@Loh Jane,
Quote:Is this sentence correct?
I have found a new website fortuitously and have known many new friends from it.
"correct" is an odd word to use, LJ, because it's too loaded a term.
The word order is fine, it's grammatical, but it doesn't sound natural.
I have found a new website fortuitously and have known many new friends from it.
have known - this sounds like you are expressing a finished notion. For this situation we often use "get to know/make/come to know ..."
-> and have got to know many new friends.
-> and have made many new friends.
-> and have come to know many new friends.
I have found a new website fortuitously -
I have found -> The present perfect is used to introduce a past action that has current relevance/hot topic/important to now, so we use it to set the stage and then proceed to discuss it.
I have found a new website. It was quite by chance/accidental/...
Did you use a Chinese-English dictionary to choose 'fortuitously'?