Hello and welcome to you, I'd like to introduce myself and start off what I hope will be a useful resource for you in your studies of Japanese.
My name is Mike Sharp, I'm a Japanese and English as a Second Language teacher from Perth, Western Australia. I'm currently living in Kobe, Japan as an exchange teacher. As you may or may not know, Western Australia and Hyogo Prefecture are sister states and we visit one another quite regularly on trips and longer exchanges. In 2010, I'm representing WA over here at two schools and a Japanese teacher will be doing the same in Perth.
Hopefully there'll one or two things in this for you, which I'll try to explain now.