I'm a student of Linguistics specializing in Japanese. I've been studying Japanese on and off for a while now, and while I always keep improving, I'm not a native speaker or even fluent, so I tend to always view my intuitive judgments with a grain and salt (and so should you :)).

I usually tend to look at things from a linguistic point of view and not as a typical language student or enthusiast. This comes with the added benefit of seeing things in new and interesting ways, but this approach also has some disadvantages. In other words, please tell me if I use some obscure professional term, and if my explanations are a little bit complicated or long-winded, please bear with me. :)