Mpikambana:Jagwar/presentation

What about me ?

I am a Malagasy national, aged 31. I'm currently a software engineer who absolutely loves Python. I live in Paris, thousands of kilometres away from my ancestral lands.

How many years on Wikipedia?

I first heard about Wikipedia in 2005 and I've been writing on Wikipedia since 2008, when the Internet got available a few steps away from my living room.

How many languages spoken?

Theoretically, six. In practice, four.

Malagasy is my mother tongue. In Madagascar I was always schooled in French-speaking schools and then moved to France when I was 10. From age 10 to 15, I have never written anything serious in Malagasy. At age 15, my written proficiency in Malagasy was catastrophic (language attrition was real, at least in writing). To remedy that, I have vowed to write as much as I could in Malagasy and make a habit out of it. Thanks to a tremendous effort shown by reading tons of written and oral literature, creating thousands of articles on Wikipedia, Wiktionary and my own blog, proficiency is back.

I'm highly proficient in French since I live in France, but I don't consider it as a second language as I've learnt it at school. I'm also proficient in English, though I've never spend more than 10 days in an English-speaking country. I listen to and read English daily through radio podcasts and news articles, and also made a habit out of it. I'm slightly less proficient in Spanish. But I can still understand most of it and would readily travel to and live in any Spanish-speaking country with no major language-related issues.

My knowledge of Esperanto is purely coincidental as I was developing Kriollatino, a language that bizarrely sounds like a mix of Italian and a heavily modded Esperanto.. As of my knowledge of Japanese and Chinese, they are minimal, with an understanding of basic vocabulary for the most part.

Where else can you find me?

• Terakasorotany -- my blog
• Github repository
• @terakasorotany on Twitter