I'm french, and well, I had classes (was 12 years old when I first played PSO), but Shenmue and PSO helped me a lot more to understand and practice the language
Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais j'étais presque sur que tu étais Français =)
I believe I was 12 as well when I first played pso. My english was very bad back then But pso didn't help me though as I was only playing with french people.