My name is Kevin, and I am a university-educated American with a Masters degree in teaching. I was raised in a monolingual English-speaking household, and was only first exposed to another language when I began learning Italian in middle school. More than a decade later, I am fluent in Italian, and my studies of that language have taken me places I could only have dreamed of as a child. Not only that, but through learning another language, I developed lifelong friendships that would have never been possible if I had remained a monolingual English speaker. I've studied many languages besides Italian as well, including Spanish, French, German, Esperanto, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, and Korean. Now that I have found italki, I intend to use it as a resource to expand my knowledge of the languages I have already studied, to the point where I can use them both socially and professionally at an advanced level. At this moment, my two major priorities are working on my Korean skills, and maintaining my Italian, Spanish, French, and German at a high level.