I was born in Brazil, where Portuguese is widely spoken as the only native language and where most of people don't usually have any interest in the business of languages. Even so, I don't know exactly how I fell in love with French when I was about 15 and though English was the official foreign language adopted by my school, I kind of disliked it. However, it was a brief and hopeless fight and I surrendered to the language of Shakespeare as soon as I understood its role as a lingua franca in so many contexts nowadays. Thus, though my love for the French language remains untouched so far, I can say that my heart was open to other languages with the passing time. Hence, I understood that Victor Hugo's language will always be my first love, but that there was enough room in my life for the cultural diversity of Miguel de Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Júlio Cortázar and Eduardo Galeano's, as well as for the melody of Dante Alighieri's. In my very busy life, studying and practicing foreign languages and learning about other cultures is one of my most cherished pleasures, along with reading and writing, of course! If you feel a bit like that, perhaps we should try talking through Skype and see what comes next. In the end, friendship is an animal which finds place everywhere, since it has at least two open hearts where it may dwell.