Hello,

I write this short thinking to talk about what happened to me (and I suppose not only to me) and at same time to training my writing and having your appreciated corrections.

I have had often difficulties to get in touch with english people in social media.

A bit less in this site, more in others. My desire was to meet english people to talk to in english and in italian with Skype. My weak points are listening and pronunciation (and as you can see writing too...)therefore the only way to improving them it's simulate a conversation using mic. I don't live in a big city and I don't have possibilities to practice them a lot. But, but...

People are often resistant (and I don't judge them, they don't know you at first). You explain them you are polite, your only interest is making linguistic exchange, you are not interested in cam to cam, you have a good culture, you have no interests about the gender or age of your recipient.

So when you contact men to speak they get suspicious and think perhaps "he prefers men to women, why?".

But you contact men after women refused talking to you because, they think "and if he was a pervert?".

Many of them, when they are contacted in private, of course using kind words, don't even answer. If it were possibile I'd have appreciated a formal "I'm sorry, I can't, I haven't time or similar" than the silence. Nothing!

Other people want not make conversations exchange but just selling their courses or lessons.

Of course I don't judge them, teaching it's a noble and great job but I'm searching an informal exchange at par.

So it's not so easy to find a linguistic partners. In this site, after many messages, I have found just 2 kind american person whom I can speak in italian and in english. But in my opinion there are too many prejudices (because of those who are not interested in language improving but in other things).