Welcome to Textfugu, Armando.

You will hear from so many adults, including me, “I wish I had learnt Japanese at your age”. We are all ‘oldies’ (I am 30 years old) and it isn’t a cliche that we all say the same. It is so important to learn a language and it is awesome that you have made a commitment to better your language skills. I salute you!

You’ll find loads of helpful people here in the forums, so any problems, just ask.

Sorry to go off topic, but I have a question @Winter… Do you plan on taking GCSE Japanese? Can you? I just wondered. My friend’s sister self studied/had a weekly tutor and took GCSE Italian when she was in Year 10 and got an A*. She’s just finished her GCSEs and took German at school and is pretty sure she did enough for a B/C. Maybe the school system isn’t great at teaching languages, eh?

Anyway, good luck with your studies, Armando.
Emma ^-^