Annoucement to Return to the Community It's been 2 years since I last updated on Italki, and I now come back to start a project: speed writing every day. By speed writing, I mean jotting down what has happend to me recently in half an hour or less every day, as a way to train myself in quick organization of English sentences. It has been a problem for me for a long time -- I got almost full scores in IELTS for reading and listening, but my active output of English has been relatively poor. I can understand many essays in English magazines like Time quite easily, but I still stutter when I chat with an English native speaker. Having worked for three years after college graduation, I feel that I still can't identify my strengths and core competitiveness in the workplace, and I feel like turning back to my old advantage: language. I want to become an interpreter, not necessarily full-time, but work in a position that demands high English interpreting skills. So I need to improve my active output of Engish, and think apart from interpreting exercises, which asks you to translate what others have said, writing, which is a way to express yourself, is another good method to "force" me to use English. So that's my announcement of returning to the community, and in the next couple of months, I will monitor my progress in speed writing, and I welcome your supervision too ^^ Time count: 13 min