Hello there, I was raised in El Paso/Juarez. Living in a border town made it easy for me to able to know two different languages. My first language was Spanish followed up by English. I am a 20 year old college student studying Biology at St. Mary's University, and in my free time I like to play video games, hang out with my friends and troll around on the interwebz. I never wanted to learn a second language when I was a kid I despised the English language and did everything I could to avoid it. This was not to last, when I turned 10 my school district started enforcing monolingual classes in english and I was forced to learn the language. From then on my love for learning languages began. I am now fluent in Spanish and English. I also learned enough french to be able to read newspaper articles and other such things but was never able to talk fluently in it. I just cannot speak it, but I can read it, and manage to write in it just enough to be understood. I also took a curse in German, it was fascinating but a bit to close to English for my taste. Since I was a kid I adored TV and Mexican TV in the late 90s and early 00s started showing anime, and I was hooked. The art was beautiful but what intrigued me the most was the written characters. Later on I understood it was Japanese, and was amazed by how beautiful the characters seemed to be. I grew up always wanting to learn Japanese but was never able to until I entered College. I met an amazing professor who taught me Hiragana, Katakana, and some simple basic Kanji but I might not be able to return to the class next year. This is why I have come here to italki, I don't want to lose what I learned, on the contrary I want to improve upon it. I hope that in here I can converse with those fluent in the Language, currently living there, so that I can learn the tongue and hopefully one day be able to visit the country for an extended period of time. Anyways that's me, time to venture forth.