I'm studing English sevral years. It is a great language I think. Unfortunately, I have nobody to talk with. Sometimes I sing English songs or listen English news but it is not so interesting as to speak with somebody. Spoken English is without any progress. It's so sad. I used to try to describe or compare any pictures, or tell  stories using some cards but how to begin to speak? That is the question! I have two children, two sons, I'd like them to know English too, but Russian educational system doesn't let to study spoken English. We can read, we know grammar rules, we can write a little but very few people can talk in English. How to cope with this problem nobody knows. English exam at schools consists of different tasks and one of them is a spoken part, for axample you have to talk 5 minutes about any topic or make a good conversatrion with an examiner. Such tasks frighten our children.  It is a good thing to learn English abroad,  but it is so expensive to go anywhere.