E-mail address: dreamingfifi@gmail.com
MSN Messanger: fiona_b_albini@hotmail.com

Hello! I am dreamingfifi, your teacher. I live on a small ranch in Montana, where it is true: we do have internet and cable television.

I am not actually a duck. The duck is Aewvain. I met her in Seattle Harbor with her large family of ducklings. I like to use her as a symbol of family and learning.

Ever since I was little, I have been interested in languages that aren't very useful for communicating with the people around me. The chickens, turkeys, dogs, goats, sheep, and I spoke together fluently long before I used any human sounding language. I spoke a language of my own creating when dealing with the humans around me until I was almost four years old, when I learned English.

I still can speak the languages of my chickens and turkeys fluently. Did you know that the typical "Bok bok bok!" that people attribute to chickens is actually the hens' egg laying song? That a rooster's crow is an establishment of his territory (meaning, "if you can hear me, you are in my territory!"), not a wake up call? That a turkey's "Gobble gobble gobble!" is actually an expression equal to our "What the f*** was that?" Now you know.

Like the languages of animals, I started studying Tolkien's languages when I was pretty young, at 15. Now I am 20. I went about studying it the long way, making many mistakes, working through trial and error. When I was 17, I finally started studying the work that already had been done on Tolkien's languages, and found that I had been getting a lot of things wrong. I had to relearn Sindarin.

What I hope to do is to help people skip those years spent fumbling around, trying to figure it out for themselves. I hope to introduce the works of the masters. I hope to show people how I see Sindarin.