Learning a new language isn’t an easy task. In fact it can be extremely hard especially if you don’t live in a country where your target language is predominantly spoken. To me the most challenging part about learning English is speaking. I’ve always tried to learn the language in a passive way through movies, books, podcasts and as a consequence there is a huge gap between my comprehension skills and my speaking skills. Another difficult aspect about the English language is it’s pronunciation. As an Italian native speaker i find it very difficult to reproduce certain sounds that don’t exist in our phonetic alphabet, such as the “th” sound or the distinction between short and long vowels, as in “live” and “leave”.