Hi everyone! I'm a native English speaker in the UK. I studied Japanese for a few years without much practice in writing or speaking. After that, I started taking lessons on this site to learn to speak Japanese, and learned to write through language exchange and posting on a forum. In French, I had some speaking practice in the past but am quite rusty now. My listening is better. My main interests are programming, language learning, video games (mostly Nintendo and Digimon), gardening and indoor rock climbing. I teach programming to kids as a volunteer. I'm also involved with helping other people learn Japanese online.