Thank you for your interest in this little profile. My first language is English. My hope is that people here on italki will help me to maintain or improve the little grasp I have of French and Italian. Sadly my spoken Italian is not good enough as yet to make language exchange in the traditional manner worthwhile. I studied English for seven years at a grammar school; unsurprisingly, this included studying a lot of English grammar! During my four years at university I regularly wrote feature items and news reports for the university's student newspaper. Later, I worked for many years as a professional writer, with a specialism in writing for the screen and voice as well as a decent output and client list in writing for text-based media. My interests include art, photography, music, film, literature, psychology, sociology, politics and current affairs.