Are you a good listener? For me, I am a good listener. Hopefully my friends and some relatives are used to looking for me when they have problems and need to vent. As a good friend, I try to listen to them even when I also have a problem, I wait until they finish speaking. I only interrupt them when I have questions related to the subject they're telling me. Otherwise I keep quiet listening to each word carefully. If I feel annoyed with anything, I also talk to the same friends who I normally hear. The problem is that I realized that some of them don't treat me like I treat them. Not all, but some of them underestimate my feelings with behaviours which I would never have with them. I can't imagine them talking to a depressive person like they talked to me. Furthermore, I wonder how many people commit suicide just because they feel they can't be heard and understood. Of course I do not have any emotional problem, but I'm worried about the fact of having realized how short people's patience is. Many of them don't care about listening to each other. However they want to be listened, but don't want to be someone who will provide a shoulder to someone cry on. How can we change this?

What has been your biggest challenge during yout English lerning process?ing p I've been learning English since 2003 and I think I should already speak it fluently. Actually, I feel that there are lots of things I haven't learnt yet. Besides that, I find it too hard to memorize and to use the phrasal verbs. The advanced listening is a big challenge for me and I think it happens because I'm not used to writing and putting what I learn in practice. Furthermore I have nobody to practice the speaking with me, what sometimes makes me feel unmotivated to keep studying. And you?

First notebook entry: Introducing myself I'm 27 years old, from Brazil and married. I'm here in order to improve my English. I've been studying English since 2003. I love English and I'm also looking for good friends.