Self-encouragement Today I talked with a friend met on italki, but only to find my oral English goes backward. For a year since I got back from America, I only occasionally talk with a few friends calling from America in English. My writing, reading and listening stay relatively strong thanks to formal education and half a year of exposure to native English environment, but I cant not manage to speak freely as before. I have to push myself to work hard and make the best of myself. Yes! I can make it!