My first conversation in English with a native

Yesterday I made friends with an italki user. She comes from the US and she's learning Italian because one of her dreams is to travel to Italy. We have chatted a lot using Skype, both in English and in Italian (but she has only just started learning Italian recently, she is only a beginner, so the conversation in, regards to Italian, was simple and basic sentences). Today we had our first conversation; it lasted more than one hour! We only spoke in English but we talked about dozens of topics!
I was scared to have a conversation totally in English, because I thought things such as "I'm not ready", "I won't understand a single word" or "It will be boring for her to speak with me". But, in any case, I have decided to try it. The result made me very happy! Indeed she has an accent and a "manner of speaking" that makes me understand almost all of what is said. So listening was not a problem. The real problem is another: I'm not used to speaking in English very often, so I can't create correct sentences quickly! When it was my turn to speak there are long (they were not long!) seconds of terribly embarassing silence!! However, I think it's worth it for me to try and retry speaking, without fear, so that I can improve my fluency! One thing that I have to change in the next conversation is to give more time to speaking Italian. Indeed for a native, it's boring to have a conversation in their own language without learning anything new. I am fortunate to speak some English so that if my language partner can't understand what I say in Italian, I can explain the meaning to him in English.
I'm looking forward to speak again with an English speaking (I am American, haha, I speak English!) native!! Thanks italki, and thanks to all who are patient with me and are helping me to learn this wonderful language! CIAOOOO!

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My first conversation in English with a native speaker

Yesterday I made friends with an italki's user member. She comes is frome the US, and she's is learning Italian because since one of her dreams is to travel to Italy. We have used Skype and chatted a lot using Skype, both in English and in Italian. Since  (but she started learning Italian recently, she is only a beginner, so the conversation in Italian is limited to regards simple and basic sentences). Today we had the our first real conversation: and it's take took more than one an hour! We have spoken only in English and we have talked about discussed on dozens of topics!

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I'm looking forward to speak again with an English native!! Thanks italki, and thanks to all who are being patient with me and in helping me learning this wonderful language! CIAOOOO!