[angus77]

Mother tongue is English. Been studying Japanese for 15 years and living in Japan for 13. Was doing Esperanto for a few years, but since I've had kids I had to ditch at least one of my hobbies. Been recently trying to pick up French, because I'm Canadian and always got good marks in French in school, and I regret ditching it after I finished grade 9 (the last year it was mandatory).

Over the years, I've taken stabs at German, Latin, Chinese, Spanish and Lojban. Same story each time---a few weeks of initial enthusiasm, and then I got bored and never returned to Language X. I don't know what kept me glued to Japanese. With Esperanto, I was about to move on when I discovered there were actually people in my town who spoke it and met every week. It added unexpected depth to what I had been approaching as a novelty language.