Italki challenge completed I’ve successfully finished the italki challenge of taking 10 sessions within one month of Jan. 2013. Looking back, I think what I’ve acquired most from the experience is to be able to stay more composed and to think and speak more systemically and logically in facing with people speaking English as their first language. In terms of learning English, I feel that I’ve hit on some sort of learning plateau for a long while. Easy daily conversation is probably not that much of a problem for me now, but what I’m really looking for is to become capable of fluently discussing and reasoning on some more abstractly formulated topics, and in order to do so, tutors on italki do help me a lot. Apart from broadening my database of active vocabularies and correcting my sentencing and phrasing to be more natural (which is fundamentally important of course), my tutors also familiarise me with some contemporary issues happening in English speaking spheres and the existing approaching logics and copping strategies in facing such issues. By doing so, they help me understand the general reasoning process in English speaking culture, and thereby enable me to set up a more likely efficient communication with people from those countries.