Intro by Nick

Hello everyone, especially to this blog's co-writers, I'm very thrilled to write this blog with you guys...

I'm Nicholas Cripps, was born and raised in Manila till I was 12, then moved to the Gold Coast, Australia in the year 2000. Luckily I was old enough not to forget Tagalog when I moved to Australia...I recently graduated with a BA, and hope to teach English in Japan and China before I take my Masters.

My love affair with foreign language learning started when I entered high school, as Japanese was compulsary for the first year. I was so scared because I was told by my parents that learning a foreign language is hard, and so I would probably not do well in Japanese, and should make sure I studied hard in my other subjects to get my grades up. It turned out that I loved learning Japanese, and I did pretty well in it. Haha... I never saw that coming...

The next language I attempted was Cantonese in 2002, as my favourite city is Hong Kong, and my best friend here in Australia is of a Cantonese-speaking background. However back then, there were too few resources to study Canto, and I gave up because I thought it was too hard...

...So I took up Mandarin because it was easier, and there are so many online resources and books to help. I love Taiwan pop music, so it was and still is a great incentive to learn the language. Now armed with Mandarin, I'm going to take on Cantonese again in my spare time.

Finally, there's Korean. I was in love with this Korean girl during my final years in high school, and so I started learning Korean! Sadly she didn't feel the same way, and so I never really had any big incentive to learn Korean, except maybe so I can understand food terms...

I want to learn Spanish too, just because I have an advantage of being a Tagalog speaker... but it just doesn't have the same appeal as the abovementioned languages...

The only thing I love more than language learning is cooking, eating and singing! You might find that a lot of my future posts will be multilingual ramblings about food... haha.. And I love Karaoke...

Sorry everyone for the long self-intro....

Here are links to my three other blogs:
一个菲律宾人的故事　中文简体篇
一個菲律賓人的故事 中文繁體片
ニコラスによりますと 日本語のブログ

皆さん、こんにちは。ニコラスと申します。皆と一緒にこのブログを書く機会が有って、本当に喜んでいる！これからおもしろいエントリーを書くように頑張るよ！
我很高兴跟大家写这篇博客！希望大家能够喜欢我在这里将要写的文章。
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