I am a native English speaker who is born and raised in Los Angeles, California in the United States. I have studied Russian for 7 years and am considered fluent at an advanced level. I am also familiar and comfortable with Mandarin Chinese and Spanish, but not at the same level as Russian. I'm a student of many other languages as well, indicating that I have an inclination for languages and understand them from many different cultural and linguistic perspectives. I am a new freelancer and am very flexible in my hours and my abilities.