I discovered Italki some years ago, later after a while I lost interest, not because I didn't want to use it anymore, but just because I was actually busy and my daily schedule was full of to do things. Now if I could express a dream, it would be to be able to speak every language on the planet. In my opinion, it is so fascinating how languages shaped themselves during history, the similarities they have and the differences as well, which are not simply in the grammar or in the vocabulary, but in the way of thinking. Even if I'm quite young, I had the chance to meet people from all over the world in several occasions and being able to listen to their mother tongue and asking them some curiosity about their languages made me just more curious. At the moment, of course, English is like a key that can opens you many doors, because it's a common language that a big amount of people can speak more or less. In Italy we were supposed to start learning it at five years old, when we begin school education and then we go on compulsory until 19 years old. According to my personal experience, there are many things in its way of being taught that should be modified. Lots of guy doesn't understand the real importance of learning a second language and they finish their education with zero knowledge of it. I think it would be more interesting for them to learn at school not only grammar and academic expressions, but also colloquial ones, how to run a real conversation, how to really understand a native speaker talking. It's like when you learn Arabic. You learn the standard one used on television programs, official communications, but then, each country has is own dialect and if you would like to speak it, you need to choose one of them. Another aspect I find really newsworthy is the historical development of languages, but I don't have enough space here, so maybe I'll talk about it in another exercise! :)