I think people worry that they will sound foolish. Nobody wants to have an embarrassing experience, so they avoid situations where they may appear unintelligent and inarticulate. But everyone using italki is learning a foreign language. Beginners sound like very young children. We all know that when we are children - our grammar is bad and we don't say words properly. We all do this, so there is no need to be shy or embarrassed. There is no loss of face. Even when we progress to higher levels in a foreign language we may still have problems with pronunciation, accent, rhythm, which syllable to stress, how to make a specific sound which our own language does not have. We read more than we hear, and we write more than we speak. So we can be very proficient at reading and writing......but feel lost and incompetent in a live conversation. Nobody likes to feel lost and incompetent, nobody wants to feel like a failure, a loser. We learn to read and write in private, but speaking and listening are done in public. Our voices are very personal things.

I would like to improve my english conversation could you help me my id skipe is benedetto5511,please add my id if you want.thanks benny

because they thought that the person who want to chat with skype is looking for someone just to talk and not for a langauge partner and it's a good idea chatting with skype cause it's more easy and more faster than italki

Of course, it is hard to speak about what others, but, according to my experience as a teacher here, the most common reason is that they are afraid to make mistakes (be it on listening, speaking or pronunciation, vocabulary (choice of words), or grammar.

May be they're afraid of to not being good at speaking.