I am a native Japanese speaker and language learning lover. Temporary I stay at home in a very cold snowy part of Japan. What a nice environment for learning! I have been fascinated in human nature and nurture issue since I was a psychology student, and I believe that you need a lot of effort and time to gain confidence and real knowledge in learning languages even if you are naturally good at listening sounds or memorizing words. And you can never get to the native-level to all the languages, always you need to learn patiently with hope. That's why I love to learn new languages. We all can be a teacher and learner at the same time. So far I'm learning French the first, Russian the second. Both are below conversational level, and I hope to find some language exchange buddies here. Talking about French, I might move to some French speaking country and live in 2-3 years, so I want to be ready for it ASAP.