First notebook entry: Introducing myself I'm a Chinese 19-year-old and I've basically lived in china all my life. I've just been in London for a few months, the uni is cool and I study economics, the course is cool as well apparently. Chinese is my mother tongue and whether it's formal or casual Chinese that you want to learn I would be able to provide decent advises. Anyway, I'm pretty interested in French and Japanese but it would hard to learn them from here while I know barely anything about them. So why I want to learn English, coz I find it hard to understand what my friends are saying sometimes and that makes me reluctant to talk. I don't know about slangs, don't know about some specific expressions and that makes me feel really bad and prevent me from having a proper social life. Besides, academic English is also something I would like to improve. If anyone wants to learn Chinese I would love to help and if anyone's willing to help me I would really appreciate it. and I check my email everyday. :)