Hi everyone! I'm a 26-year-old guy from the Netherlands, and, like many people here, I'm here hoping to find my person!

I've never dated before, as I've mainly been focused on studying and (for the last two years) work. However, seeing my friends from school and uni get into relationships, move in with their SO, and get married, I've realized that I would like someone to spend my life with too.

I work as medical/scientific translator for four languages, and I'm a huge language and linguistics nerd. If we click, I'll probably want to learn your native language(s), so bear with me there. Maybe in a few years I'll want to make the shift from translation to language teaching, but that's still in the future. For now I really enjoy my work and want to keep doing it.

Besides my work, I also volunteer at an organisation that helps fund conservation projects for reptiles and amphibians. I sometimes do presentations and animal handling demonstrations, but my main tasks are behind the scenes, proofreading and translating content for the website and social media. The website has just been fully updated, so I've got a mountain of translation work ahead of me...

My hobbies/interests include gaming (board games, card games, video games, D&D), cooking, reading, nature/animals, and of course language. If you look at my bookshelf, around 1/3 is manga, 1/3 is cookbooks, and the remaining 1/3rd is language or linguistics books. I have a few books on nature as well, but not enough to make up a significant portion of my bookshelf (yet). I tend to ramble on about the things I find interesting,

I like cooking and think I'm decent at it, but suck at baking and making desserts, so if you're good at those but bad at cooking, we'll complement each other well!

I'm of course willing to share a picture of myself in a private message. Feel free to send me a message if you're interested! I'd prefer to talk to someone at least in Europe (preferably in the Netherlands or close by, but that's not a hard limit) because of travel distance and time zones. I like travel, but unfortunately cannot afford to travel across half the world.