About shyness. I'm a pretty quiet person. I don't like to talk very much, even in my native language. Sure, there's times that I talk a lot with my friends, nevertheless I feel that I talk much less than anyone of them. So I enjoy here to improve my English and create an account at Skype... Oh, my God! I think I just could stay there about five minutes! I totally stucked! And I'm pretty sure that it happens mainly because of video chat. My camera wasn't work (thanks God, haha), but I'm very shy and I didn't like to use that. I know this really disrupts my attempt to improve my English, but what can I do? Oh, I hate this shyness! I really want to improve my English and the skill that I need improve the most is the speaking... I think that if I don't consider the speaking my English is about avanced level, but my speaking is very poor, I think it's basic level! I'll ask a friend of mine if she wants to talk to me in English (because she's trying to improve her skills too), maybe this will be easier to me, but if anyone (mainly if you want to learn Portuguese) want to use the skype without video chat, just voice, I think that I could try.