Pushing my English to a higher level I guess if I could live even just a few months in an English speaking country my English would jumpstart. Fact is, as long as I will be staying here in Italy, it's hard to compete with the italian language. One should feel a language like his own, and use it for the majority of the day. I watch american movies on a daily basis, but it's never enough: some kind of accents are difficult for me. If I were to hear an anchorman or anchorwoman on Cnn, that's a piece of cake for me: they speak a standard american accent very easy for me to understand. But let's say I wanna watch an action movie or a movie set in the southern stats, then, man, it's a helluva different thing for me. But I won't give up: I'm keen on accents and slang and I just need to "tune in" to a different way to speaking. I've had lots of chances to read in the past, now it's time to listen, listen everyday even if at first I won't be able to understand, but that's the only way. I might say that I should have done this before, since I started learning English many years ago, shouldn't I? And, furthermore, sometimes I've got some weak points too, like in the tenses and question tags, so I don't want to boast saying that I don't need any grammar, I still need it and I'd like to polish my writing and speaking skills still more.