first day on italki Hello everyone, I send this message to practice english. Any correction and help is welcome. I would like to speak about this website and my feeling (after just one day). In short (i don't know if i can use this word), i like italki. this allowed me to SPEAK, wow! i was so happy for that! My bigget worries is the fact that i have nobody to speak with and whit italki i found a solution. I hope that i will progress quicky with my speaking. To finish i send you this wonderful sentence from ghandi Live as you were to die tomorrow, learn as you were to live forever. (i'm proud to be able to remember this in english, lol) Thank you all for your help. Merci Mamadou

learning english

I don't why is so difficult for french people to speak a good english.

After so many years at school we are not able to speak fluenty.

Mayby the way that we learn is not good (a lot of gramar courses, boring courses) and few orals lessons.

I stop here, my english is limited.

Thanks you to exhange with me

Mamad.

learning his own language I was born in africa and i came in France when i was very young (six or seven years). My first difficulty it was to speak in this language (french), anderstand people, tv, radio was impossible. After one year of practice, i was able to exchange with the others students at school. In the same time i learn french i forgot my first language. Is that possible? Now i speak french fluently, i understand evrything in my first language but i always have difficulties for speaking and my pronunciation is not so good. It's mysterious for me but it's real. So now i try to speak more in african. With my job i travelled a lot it's the reason that i love differents cultures, languages and people in a general way. That's the end of my little story about difficulty to learn a language. Thanks for reading, your help and your answers.