#1 English Challenge - please correct my Text Hi everybody, This is day one of my English learning challenge. Next March I will go to England for a short time. It's the first time I will work abroad and I'm looking forward to it very much. At the same time, I'm really concerned about my English. As I often watch English TV shows and read English texts it shouldn't be the problem to understand my colleagues over there. But I've never talked to a native speaker in my life. What if my colleagues in England won't understand me? Sure, I have been in England on holidays a few times before, but I just had to ask the way or to order a coffee or something like that ... So I started a challenge: Every day I will read a short article in a newspaper and learn the unknown vocabulary. Furthermore, I will practice English by writing a short story about what has happened that day or talking to a language partner by italki (hope I will manage to install skype ....). Once a week I will attend an English lesson: Either face-to-face here in my city or via italki. I hope this is a good way to gain more confidence in writing and talking in English.