What am I actually doing on italki site?

When I was visiting this site for the first time I was so excited...! My profil says it was two year ago- in 2010. There were lots of people from around the world. So many differeent cultures, so many natives. .. At this time of my live I was only trying to improve a little my english skills. I was looking for the site like this one for a long time, but they weren't as good as this one is. I knew that my English language wasn't my best side, but until the moment I started my first chatt conversation I had no idea that I can't communicate at all! People were typing so fast and I had no time to wonder what to write back. My vocabulary was very poor and I usually didn't know how to write sth in english. Building an easy sentence wasn't a problem of course, but I found it difficult to make longer ones. And I was really afraid of all the mistakes. And there were lots of them in every message I wrote. After some attempts I gave it up and had a long break with italki. After all, I am here again. I think I have improved a lot. But the most important thing is that learning foreign languages became my hobby. Now I am having fun during studying any language and it is never boring. I can speak Polish (my national language) and I'm able to communicate in English. I also learn French, German, Russian, Italian and Spanish. Were this all years with English in my primary and secondary school needless? In retrospect I can honestly say that this all things I learned, I could now learn much faster (like in one year or sth), but certainly it wasn't lost time! I found it out by myself HOW to learn any foreign language. Honestly saying- it's the most important thing I've ever found out. Having this recipe helped me a lot, but of course, I am still looking for some new ways of learning.


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Frankly, there are some veryyyyy minor mistakes which make no difference. Excellent stuff. Keep it up mate. :)