How do you practice? Still struggling to speak english today I came up with an idea. We can often hear that if there is no one around to talk to in a language you're a learning then you can talk to yourself. You can pretend having a conversation with an imaginary friend. Well, I've been doing this for quite a while and it really works but my problem is that I don't have much of time to do that. I'm constantly busy with work so the only time I was practicing was the time on my way to work and back home. Since I don't drive I usually talk to myself going down the street or in the subway. But what does it look like?)) even though I'm trying to be as quiet as possible barely moving my lips people around don't easily get it. I bet you don't often meet a person talking to himself/herself on the street. So I thought I could pretend talking on a phone! I tried this out. People wouldn't stare at me as though I'm a weirdo anymore. And I can speak as loud as I want. That's cool.