Hello and welcome! My name is Raphaël, a Christian, future lawyer, avid language learner and I am here to make friends and exchange languages (English or French for Spanish, Italian, Tagalog, Chinese [Mandarin], Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese)! As I grew up most of my life in Montreal, I am perfectly bilingual in both French and English with neutral accents. Neutral to the point that sometimes people are confused about where I come from haha ^^. I speak clearly and slowly (when it's necessary) so that everyone can understand me :) From experience, meeting people online is a bit *challenging* because the first impression is sadly unforgiving. You only get one chance to establish contact with someone and many times, I struggle to find interesting things to say in the first messages. Anyone can relate? Haha. It's a bit like lottery. In over three years on Italki, I've made only a few friends, but it's totally worth it! A real friend can become a friend for life, and that's priceless :) and I've been blessed with the opportunity to meet some of them in person! It was amazing and I hope it will happen again in the near future. I enjoy deep conversations, I'm curious about people, how they think, how they feel. I'm expressive myself; I "tactfully" say what I think. I believe that friendship is based on respect, support, genuineness and the will to build something strong together :). It's team work :). I am not looking for a specific type of person, my friends are all different from one another but they all had in common an authentic interest in getting to know me. That's something I could feel even in the very first conversation :) If I have inspired you to send me a message, take your time in writing it :). If you liked my profile, do say so :). If you want to ask me a question, please go ahead (I recommend that you do, it's easier to start a conversation that way)! On my part, I will do my best to make the conversation engaging ^^ We can do this! Go go go.