Hello, my name is Jen and I live in the state of New York in America.. I'm 23 years old and I've been studying Japanese for 7 months as a hobby. I have always been interested in Japanese culture and find it all fascinating. Some day I want to go to Japan and speak Japanese with the people their so I can truly experience the different flavors of Japan for myself! I'm hoping to possibly meet some Japanese writing/speaking friends on this website so that I can practice and improve my language skills more and more. At the time of writing this I have learned all of the hiragana characters and am working on katakana. I know some very basic grammar and am just starting to construct sentences so I won't be offended if you think I'm not proficient enough to start talking to anyone just yet. I will try my best to learn more each day!