Training for a "Stand-up" Talk

Today I want to talk about my strategy. The strategy of learning English. At the moment of writing this, I have been on the italki less one month, but my English has already improved (slightly). I understood one of the main things: you don't need to be afraid of speaking. When you write something, you have enough time to think, to have a look into a dictionary, to translate a questionable sentence in Google... Even in chat, you still can do all these things. But when you speak... When you speak, you have no time to think, you have no time to build a phrase in your native language and then translate it. Your partner waits for an instant answer, there is no time for translating, no pauses allowed. Thus, you have to THINK in the language you learning and this is the hardest thing in language learning.
In addition, there is another thing that sometimes completely stops a conversation. It is topics. Partners often don't know what they can talk about. Really, what about can talk two person from different sides of the world talk about? About weather? That's why it is so important to find an interesting partner or an interesting topic. Of course, first of all, it is possible to use common topics: weather, family, pets... But to the third, to the fourth conversation, partners already can't talk with each other, because of absence of suitable topics. I think, the best way to avoid this situation is to list on the piece of paper some topics. For example: 1) Talk about cars, 2) talk about women 3) talk about plans of both partners 4) etc. If you have that piece of paper, you can easily talk during 30-minutes session and your partner will not feel a slow speed of conversation.
But to make a successful session, you need a partner. How can you find him? On italki, of course. And here we encounter (thanks for the word, pacificamatt!) one more thing. It is a communication problem. Let me explain. Most people live in different time zones, so, they can't talk at convenient times, which will be comfortable enough for both partners. For example, I'm learning English and I'm in Russia. Somebody from USA learns Russian. But we can't talk, because of the time difference. When I wake up and go to work, my partner in USA is going to sleep! It is funny, isn't it? That's why I decide to accept ALL calls to my Skype ID, even if I'm not online (well, except calls at deep nights). What do think about it? Will it work?

By the way: I write this text without ANY translators, dictionaries, etc. So, don't judge me severely ))

[VERY good! I don't judge you - I just correct you. You are doing fine. Like most Russians I see here, you have a habit of dropping articles (the, a, an), since Russian doesn't use them nearly as much. To repeat - you're doing fine, keep it up.]