I was born & raised in a monolingual Midwestern American (USA) town. Through stories told me by some older people who had served as missionaries I became fascinated with language and cultures despite not having any access to resources that would allow me to study them. Many years later I am still fluent in English alone. Over the years I have dabbled with Japanese, ASL, Spanish, French, Italian, Azerbaijani (Azeri), Turkish and Arabic (MSA only). I own a vast language library which contains materials for even more languages but I can't seem to stick with a program on my own! My current language learning project is Esperanto and while I have collected several resources, I still have yet to begin to study. I am looking for someone to help keep me on track. I am also interested in language exchanges.