success and failure When I start thinking about failure I can’t stand but thinking about my own experience last year. I had been attending English lessons all the school year and finally I passed the written exam in June but I failed the oral one. After knowing the results I was really disappointed and quite depressed for three days. I had another opportunity in September. However, the next day I met a friend of mine and we started talking about languages, we told each other about our experiences and then on I couldn’t take what he told me out of my mind. He explained to me that he used to practice Italian with an online teacher. So I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to practice my speaking and improve my fluency. At the beginning it was tremendously challenging to me, since computing and technology isn’t my cup of coffee, I really felt all at sea, but soon I became an expert on these issues. I also had to handle different currency, since the lessons must be paid in dollars. I felt like a bull in a China shop at the beginning but approximately by the third lesson I was completely self-confident. Not only did I improve my spoken English using this tool, but I also met incredibly interesting people, such as an American guy, who lives in Thailand and in his youth he worked as a spy for the American government in Russia, so he could speak Russian, English and some Thai. Therefore, what at first seemed to be a failure, nowadays I feel it like a success, because thanks to it I discovered an awesome tool to me, since being a shy person I feel really self-conscious in front of a classroom, but I can show the best of myself in a one-by-one conversation. Afterwards, I continued with language exchanges, meeting even more interesting people and spreading my mother tongue, Basque language, all over the World. If I had passed the exam, this wouldn’t have happened: every cloud has a silver lining. In the end, I didn’t pass the oral exam in September because I got stacked and I couldn’t even make a sentence properly, thanks to the nerves. Nevertheless, I feel successful because I know that I reached a high level of spoken English, no matter if I am not able to demonstrate it in front of a jury. The day will arrive when I will be capable of doing so. I am sure!