Hi, my name is alessandro and i became a member recently (the christmas promotion helped me decide XP). Although it’s not a noble goal as the ones i read from the other members, i’ve started learning japanese because i’m attracted by the language itself. I’m not saying i don’t like the japanese culture, but i’m just not someone who can get obsessed from a culture and i’m currently not planning to go to japan in the short term, so in the end this was just the best motivation i found to explain why i’m studying japanese. It’s more or less an year i’m trying to seriously learning japanese, but at first i was clueless and i simply tried to learn hiragana and katakana making just a big fuss (i was studying them together and keep mixing them XP), then after a while i started using textfugu and even if i’m not following all the advice given i’m getting good results ;). I’m not used at writing in forums and so it took me a while before writing this post, but in the years i realized that the better way to learn a new language is to speak it with other people, so i’ll at least try to check some topics once in a while and say something. I think i got a bit carried away considering this should be just a presentation post, but it can’t be helped XP. Well, bye everyone and thanks for reading. ^_^