I'm 31 and English my second language! So while my vocabulary is pretty decent and my grammar is okay, I sometimes have trouble expressing myself as clearly as I'd like and people often misinterpret what I'm trying to say (and they usually misinterpret it in the worst possible way, which inevitably causes drama >.<).
If you're curious, French is my first.
I live in the land of weremoose, poutine and pâté chinois.
I never took any class related to RP in any way except some drama in elementary school because we had to pick 2 out of 3 of music, drama and whatever it is when you glue stuff and make "art" and I REALLY didn't want music so I picked the other two.
I ended up in the most advanced English classes though cause I turned out to be pretty bilingual (I suspect most of my motivation came from wanting to know wtf was going on in Final Fantasy 2(US) at the time). This kept on until college so by the time I dropped out, I was comfortable enough watching movies, playing games and reading books in English, if that was their original language (I feel there's always a loss in translating something).
Now as far as actual RP goes... if we skip endless games of make believe and solo adventure books (Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, Way of the Tiger... good times), I guess it started around 12 or 13 years old, when I laid my eyes on some D&D books and from there I started RPing whenever I could.
Before RPing in mmorpg's was a thing, though (and that started about 6 years ago for me, I think) I would write extensive backgrounds for NPC's and PC's alike, stories for my friends to enjoy (fantasy/comedy starring them and myself in an alternate universe) and even once, a journal for an NPC, that I intended for players to find and then I'd hand it over for them to actually read (and of course that never happened, but I still had one friend read it).
Of course, most of that was in French. o_o
If you're curious, French is my first.
I live in the land of weremoose, poutine and pâté chinois.
I never took any class related to RP in any way except some drama in elementary school because we had to pick 2 out of 3 of music, drama and whatever it is when you glue stuff and make "art" and I REALLY didn't want music so I picked the other two.
I ended up in the most advanced English classes though cause I turned out to be pretty bilingual (I suspect most of my motivation came from wanting to know wtf was going on in Final Fantasy 2(US) at the time). This kept on until college so by the time I dropped out, I was comfortable enough watching movies, playing games and reading books in English, if that was their original language (I feel there's always a loss in translating something).
Now as far as actual RP goes... if we skip endless games of make believe and solo adventure books (Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, Way of the Tiger... good times), I guess it started around 12 or 13 years old, when I laid my eyes on some D&D books and from there I started RPing whenever I could.
Before RPing in mmorpg's was a thing, though (and that started about 6 years ago for me, I think) I would write extensive backgrounds for NPC's and PC's alike, stories for my friends to enjoy (fantasy/comedy starring them and myself in an alternate universe) and even once, a journal for an NPC, that I intended for players to find and then I'd hand it over for them to actually read (and of course that never happened, but I still had one friend read it).
Of course, most of that was in French. o_o
