A long time from my last post on Italki Hi, it is a long time I posted nothing on Italki. I have been feeling that this place is not only a great place where to start a new language, but also a great way to improve one you already know. in my case it is English. It is easy to say that I have been learning Chinese for two years, but for English there's no way to say..., now I'm 52 and I started when I was 20, when I went to London for a vacation, 2 weeks.... basically I could only say "Hello", and a bit more. I felt in love with English, and then I wanted to learn it. Not an easy road, I used to be a very different guy, but now we've got a lot of opportunities and knowledge how to learn a new language. When I was young, the only way is taking a class with books and teachers, maybe listen to the radio, or some audio cassette. Now we've got plenty of resources: only to say a bunch of them, italiki.com, lang-8, tatoeba.org, memrise. Skype is a great tool and you can take lessons with native speaker teachers at home, chat with friends all around the world. So I want to give a shot and try to share my feelings and thoughts in English, thank you Alessandro