It is hard and frustrating found a native and advanced speaker that can help a novice speaker I have been studying English for 8 months, I think I started in the wrong way. I started reading a lot and not listening as much, nowadays I have been trying to listen more and improve this skill. In the whole time that I have been studying, I've had one call with a native speaker because she want to learn Portuguese but I think this call was a disaster, it was as if the words left my mind and I wasn't able to express any ideas during the discussion. Since the call I haven't seen my buddy online :( I am trying to improve my listening. Everyday I watch videos on youtube on channels like TED, TED ed, sometimes I also use podcasts. But as I said in the title of this entry, it is hard and frustrating when I send messages and there is no reply or the reply is negative. I know that native speakers have a lot of messages in their inbox and they might already have a language buddy and a lot of others reasons why they do not want to reply. So, I don't know what I can do to find a buddy to help me Learn English. For now I will just continue listening to the vídeos on youtube.