Thread:GreenMoriyama/@comment-27802145-20160726095948/@comment-3391671-20160809050119

To adequately answer your questions first.
 * My fluency in English comes from two factors:
 * Around the time when I was in middle school, I had studied vigorously the English language, with personal issues holing me up even more. I first studied under British English (both in speech and writing) before learning American English.
 * Thereafter, as an aspiring translator of JP<->EN, I've been teaching myself more English over the past near-decade. In the meanwhile, I've been a teacher/tutor for English while also having a job as a translator.
 * If you consider being in America (the Bay Area of California, to be exact) to being a studying abroad experience, it's half-yes and half-no. I haven't visited other countries to explicitly study, and my time here in America (as much as it was for my education) has become something entirely different. If I didn't come to the States, I believe I would still be the quiet boy I was back where I come from, the countryside of Osaka prefecture, Japan.
 * If you didn't take note from what I had said, I'm not living in Japan anymore as I reside in the Bay Area of California. I do go back to Japan every couple of months for business over there, but if I had to say which is my more permanent residency, it would be America.

I believe I had mentioned before on one of the pages of my Japanese heritage, but since I do not foremost post it on my user page, I can see why the question pops up. As mentioned on the user page, if you wish to know more about me, check out the wiki's I am at.