Diary #9 How difficult conversations in foreign language is. I have been studying English for about nine years. I studied English for entrance exams for high school and the college for the first seven years, especially in the first six years, and I started to practice speaking English two years ago. Now I'm taking four classes in English with American students at a college. I can understand most of the things that the professor mentions. However, once it comes to conversation, I face many difficulties; I cannot catch what native speakers are talking about, and I cannot express what I think. The reasons why I can understand classes is that the professors speak clearly and use clean grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciations. In contrast, the reasons why I cannot communicate with American people is that they use slang, idiom, whatever we, English learners, never learn in classrooms. Also, they speak fast. I felt that I have to spend another decade to learn English to be a better English speaker.