Hi, my name is Christa. I enjoy learning languages, not only because they are beautiful and fascinating in themselves, but also because of the opportunities they provide for connecting with people, and the way they help to give form to my thoughts (with all the chaos in my brain, the more ways I have to organize my thoughts, the better!). Currently I'm learning Spanish, and other languages I want to learn (some I've already studied a little bit) include Russian, Korean, Italian, and ASL. My interest in languages also includes constructed ones. I learned Esperanto because it has no irregular verbs, and found it to be a very elegant and flexible language, ideal for poetry. I learned Toki Pona because, with a vocabulary of only about 120 words, why not? At first I found it difficult to use, and sometimes I still do, but with practice I've been quite surprised at how much I can express and understand. I learned a little bit of Klingon out of curiosity, but I don't really speak it. I've also studied Lojban, which is based on formal logic and is designed to be syntactically unambiguous. I find its structure appealing and really enjoy studying it, but as yet I remain an "eternal beginner" :-P. I've also dabbled in Volapük, a "world language" project that predates Esperanto, and was popular for a while. I studied it out of curiosity, and find it very interesting, but it's another one I don't actually speak. I work as a proofreader, and when I'm not working or studying languages, I enjoy reading books, listening to music, making stuff out of paper, wood, and yarn, playing the piano, writing poetry, memorizing weird stuff like the periodic table and the digits of pi, reading internet forums, watching YouTube, playing Minecraft and NetHack, and dabbling in computer programming. And playing Frisbee, if I have someone to play with.