Hi! I love learning new languages. I speak English a bit and I want to learn a new language.

At present, I am learning French on my own, and I'm also considering studying Italian and Spanish. It is a challenging hobby but it keeps my brain and learning faculties from getting lazy.

It excites me that I shall be able to read original books (especially poetry!), watch movies without subtitles and connect freely with people from these areas. There is so much information and meaning that is lost in translation. Besides, it is also amazing to see the sort of similarities that exist between languages.

The more I know the more I become amused and thrilled by how close different cultures are.

Beyond my love for languages, I take pleasure in photographing and travelling to new places.

If you don't speak English well enough not to use a translator while communicating, don't write to me, please. I like having good conversations, puns, jokes and fun, not words lost in translation.

I have a wide variety of preferences in literature. I like both fiction and non-fiction obviously. Among the first ones are those of (long) modern and contemporary books, ranging from Dickens, Flaubert  to Stein and  Kerouac. As for the last type I’m into pop science now.