Hi! I'm Janine and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. :) I've also lived in LA and St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia. I translate for a living and am also in school to become a voice actor for video game and cartoon/anime characters. Recently, I realized that I haven't been living up to my full potential in terms of language acquisition because it is my main talent in life, and I've only learned Russian and Spanish to advanced levels and French and Portuguese to intermediate levels up until this point. I would like to improve all of these 4 and to learn many more languages, so that I can be more useful to my community and also talk with more people around the world! On Italki I am looking to learn Korean and Mandarin from the Fujian province. Since I just moved to New York City part-time and my new neighbors are mostly from the Fujian province, that's the specific accent I want to learn. I also do Portuguese here.