To See Life From Above I haven't noticed how it happened that I stopped practicing English. Usually I write up to two notebook entries per day, but I haven't been doing it over a week or so. Perhaps currently I speak enough, that's why my anxiety disappeared. Earlier I worried a lot if I didn't accomplish my daily language routine. I think it would be funny to see how I speak during my classes. The students mostly understand me, but I guess that it often happens due to the context of our studies. They have spent about a month with me, so they can grasp what I mean even if I make mistakes or my grammar isn't correct. As for me, I'm still confused when I make mistakes, although even on italki I've written many times that making mistakes is the only way to improve your speaking skills. The problem of how to expand an active vocabulary still bothers me. However, now I clearly understand that this problem is also related to our daily speaking routine. We actually don't use many words even when we speak our mother tongue. Referring to speaking English (with regard to speaking English), or any other foreign languages, it means that the only way we can expand our active vocabulary is creating the specific environment, or situation that will allow us to speak on certain topics quite long, day by day. Really, how can you discuss, say, sporting events if you don't visit them and are not interested in them? All this can be well pictured through the following: a language looks like a skyscraper. Its top level is somewhere in the sky, you can't even see it. However, it's not so important (it's not so essential) to visit all levels, you can live even on the first floor. It becomes important as soon as you realize that it's not enough for you. Then you start your movement up to see the ground, people and life from above.