I just realized that I've been posting to the forums, but haven't introduced myself. So here goes.
I am a sixty year old American, born in New York to two native English speaking American parents. However, my native language is French. My father was a concert pianist and composer. We moved to France so he could perform when I was very young, where we stayed until I was approaching primary school. My daughter travelled to France a few years ago and found
my old apartment and nursery school.
We returned to American, and I learned English watching
television. I also promptly lost all my French. Fast forward through failed attempts at college, and I found myself in New York City. I joined a band, whose vocalist was also getting her Ph.D. in Mathematics. The two of us broke away from that band and formed out own band, which played around the east coast. During this time, we started to date and got married.
After she finished her degree, we moved to Florida, where she is a professor at a local university. We have two daughters, Kathryn and Christina. Kathryn graduated with a double major in mathematics and political science, and minors in music and French. While in college she did a bit of travelling to Europe and to Senegal (where she worked on French and Wolof). She is currently working on a Masters in Interdisciplinary Data Sciences. My younger daughter is finishing up a double major in vocal performance and musical theater. She went to Argentina to take Spanish for college, sung an opera in Bulgaria, and visited relatives in Greece.
I, on the other hand, didn't leave the country other than road trips through Canada for quite a while. However, while completing a Masters of Public Administration, I did spend a week in Seoul, studying the city government. Recently my wife and I are addressing this lack, and took a cruise on the Rhine River in 2017, and another cruise from Rome to Barcelona this summer (2018). This brings my country count to ten. Only one hundred and eighty (+/-) to go.
I'm working on French, primarily using
Pimsleur and
Duolingo. I've also ordered a copy of
Métaquine, Tome 1 : Indications, which won the
Prix Rosny-Aîné last year. (I suspect this will be a long term project, with me living in a dictionary for a lot of it.) Finally, I've been making a few edits to the
Wiki. It would be nice if other people worked on it, too.
[Edited to clarify the whole native American thing and to clarify a bit of other language]