Improving in English In this last 5 months I really try to push myself a bit forward in English speaking. I tried to have regular conversation with native speakers, once or two a week. I tried to speak with different regional accents, mainly Australian, UK and United states one. I tried to write regularly some texts, at least one every 2 days. I can say that all this different efforts marked a relevant improvement in learning, an higher fluency while speaking and a lower mistakes rate. This is the obvious confirmation that practice and continuous efforts can really make a difference and improve skills. What I also tried to do, and I think it had a positive impact on my learning, is listening to the radio. On the way to my job at the morning, and during the evening on the way back (they take almost 35 minutes each) I started to listen to BBC World service, that’s a very interesting way to keep myself updated with the most important news from the world while I practice English. In particular, what I love to do is listening to specials that give in-sight views to special topics such as history, medicine, science and so on. They are structured with a narrating voice, mixed up with interviews, comments etc. This give me the possibility to learn every day some new words (related to totally different contexts), listen to many different accents in spoken English, from different world areas, and to listen to an English spoken with a quite high speed. That, I think, is the most complicated thing to master, while learning a language.