My Journey to Become a Fluent Speaker I have always wanted to improve my speaking skills in English, but at the same time, I have been also making excuses that I do not need to speak well in Japan as long as I can understand. However, I recently realized that I can expand my career if I can also speak English fluently, so I have started taking English lessons online to practice speaking. At the first lesson, having good grades in English tests mainly on reading and listening, I thought I could communicate well but the reality was that my speaking was really AWFUL. It was embarrassing but I could not even say simple words that I can write, and I found that speaking is totally different. I take lessons every day for 25 minutes, and 3 weeks have passed since my first lesson. So can I say that I am a good speaker now? Absolutely no. But the things I discovered are communicating with people from different countries are really fun and languages should be used for communication not just for study. My first goal was just to be fluent, but now I also want to know about people and culture around the world. This may be a long journey, but I guess it is worth it.