How to boost your speaking without a native? I have some problems with the speaking skills (I think every ESL student does) but what is the escape from a numb conversation? How to make my speaking skill fluent, coherent and understandable? Please, write the measures to be taken. Thank you in anticipation

ATTENTION PLEASE. those, who took IELTS, share your tips, experience, taken steps and opinion.

I think it would be really kind of you to say a couple of things about your preparations to the IELTS exams, since I beleive a tremendous number of ESL students would love to get this information. 

To be more specific, I am interested in:

-the score you got

-the time you prepared for the test

-the textbooks you used

-the techniques you used to memorise and implement the vocabulary

In addition, I would also love to know how I can boost my speaking if I don't have the opportunity to talk to anybody. Is it possible to prepare for IELTS and obtain 7 in overall band without a tutor? 

Thanks for your precious time. 

5 reasons to learn Russian Russian is stunning, frustrating, shocking but still beautiful and expressive. I am going to outline some benefits from learnining the Russian tongue as well as to demonstrate a couple of interesting facts about this language. For a start, Russian is officially the 8th most spoken language in the world, not including the countries, where it is spoken as the second language. The areal of the language comprises all the states of the former USSR (the list is too long) where It is still being widely used. Moreover, in some of them Russian has retained the status of the official language. For a russian speaker this fact opens an opportunity to travel and to communicate in these countries quite effortlessly. Take me, for instance, I am a citizen of Uzbekistan and I regard Russian as my native language alongside with Uzbek. Secondly, it has impressively abundand literary and cultural heritage which, I think, cannot be conveyed in any other language. Such brilliant Russian authors and philisophers like Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Tolstoy, Chekhov, etc. are justly second to none writers and it is impossible to accurately interpret their masterpieces in the other world's tongues. Furthermore, Russian is a very challenging language due to its vocabulary and grammar. In most cases, it is extremely labour-consuming for a foreigner to master it. However, as soon as you laern it, you will be fairly respected in the previously mentioned countries. If you are keen on "Hard Mode" quests, Russian is your piece of cake. Next, if you are able to speak russian, you will instantly understand Ukrainian, Belarus and some of the other Slavic lanuages. You will find easy to learn and speak these languages which relate with mighty Russian.To prove my point, here in itallki you may find Ukraininas or Russians speaking both of the languages. Finally yet importantly, owing to the fact that the influence of Russian encompasses the vast territory of the globe, it creates an extremely profitable oppotrunity to have business relationships with the Russian speaking countries (the former USSR) what is almost 15 states. It is illustrated by the fact that the economy of these countries is gradually increasing. Within a decade, a tremendous number of foreign companies established ventures and enterprises in Uzbekistan and the state lacks qualified professinals. All in all, Russian is a very fantastic and mighty language just like the Russian people. Just give it a go and you won't be disappointed.