When I first came to US, I felt like a deaf and dumb. Although I had been learned English for many years already, I only learned it from text book and I didn’t communicate with others in English back in my home country at all. I did realize the real world is totally different than the text book. Then I started to look for the resources to improve my language skill. One of the church closed to my apartment offered free Spoken English classes to the foreigners. Basically, you just went there twice a week and talk to someone to learn the language and the culture on a one-on-one basis.