I'm an Australian living in Rome for the last 10 years. I work for a humanitarian agency. I speak English (obviously!) and Italian and have a reasonable level of French, which I am constantly trying to improve. I tried to learn Spanish but found it too close to Italian. Now I'm thinking about studying Russian or German. I'd be looking for a teacher between 30-50 who has a sense of humour (sounds like a dating profile I know, but I need to be able to click with the person). I'm a big fan of the language bloggers Benny Lewis and Luca Lampariello, who reject traditional methods of learning languages and instead focus on the 80/20 approach.