Lack of trust or perseverance in practice with native speakers...? I know there might be many corrections to this entry, but anyways. I wanted to express something that came to my mind a couple of days ago. Has this happened to you? You try and contact native speakers of the language you're trying to learn and people do not trust you enough to give you their skype or msn I.D. And here's another, you actually contact someone and chat with them, share views, opinions, and even interests in practicing both of your languages (the usual "you scratch my back and I scratch yours" thing) and then when you finally get to make an arrangement for practicing the speaking skill (via skype, msn or whatever) they suddenly lose interest, don't show up, or don't even contact you again. Or even worse, they go online sometimes but it's like they've never met you. Not to mention those who just added you as a friend and they NEVER, EVER speak to you. Haha. It's just wonderful. Well, it has happened to me many times, on Facebook and some other social networks. Anyway, my point is: I just found this awesome site (italki), and I hope things are different this time for me. Otherwise, if you are one of the people I described above, you're throwing away an opportunity to truly improve your communication skills in chinese, german, spanish, portuguese, french, italian or any other language you look forward to learning. Well, just a reminder of how distrustful we are sometimes. I mean, come on people! This is a learning site, and a nice place to contact someone who can really help you. Greetings to everyone!