Bienvenue à Menewsha, ccmem~ :D I won't attempt anything more, my French is terribly rusty...

Why do you hope to be invisible from the general public? We're not a scary bunch, I promise!

You're very welcome. I'm a bit of a lurker myself, when I'm not failing to log in for weeks on end, so I can understand the appeal of invisibility, but Mene's a welcoming site - you can jump into a discussion anywhere, anytime.

My French used to be pretty good, but I haven't used it in years. I could probably still read it passably, but speaking (or in this case typing) it would be a different matter entirely...

Oh, yeah. Like English, it's kind of confusing to figure out how it sounds from how it's written. I just have a better memory for shapes than sounds, so reading and (to some extent) writing comes a lot easier. And I learned all of my French at school, too, where I dodged conversation practice as often as possible... It's really entirely my fault that I'm so bad at it. XD

Do you speak many languages?

I'd say English and French have a similar level of difficulty... though English has more weird pronunciation rules, I think having to remember verb conjugations in French levels the playing field a bit. I think spelling is important no matter what language you're writing! But then I'm pedantic that way, haha. I don't mind spelling mistakes, but spelling words wrong due to it being slang kind of annoys me...

It probably would help, but I lack confidence with speaking so badly. Even English, though I've been speaking it since I first learnt to talk, haha. I always just barely pass the speaking segments of my language exams, I have to rely on good marks in the written papers to pull me through. ;; Thank you for the advice, though. I'm going to have to put it into practice in order to improve my Japanese soon...