I'm hoping that by using this site I will be able to: 1) Improve my Chinese and practice it with other people. 2) Possibly start to learn other languages such as Japanese, Korean, and Thai. And 3) Help others with conversational English as grammar is not one of my strengths. I've had two years of formal study in Mandarin Chinese, but I fear I'm starting to forget some of what I did learn. I'm interested in Japanese Anime I've been able to learn a few words and phrases. I wish to learn Korean as I have a friend who is Korean. I wish to learn Thai because of the interesting things I've read about the culture, and I hope that I will be able to visit it one day. I also wish to visit Korea and Japan. And I would like to someday spend some more time in China because three weeks wasn't enough. :) If it's not obvious by now I'm interested in learning practically any language and traveling to the countries of the languages and cultures I learn about.