Because I honestly can’t. I can barely talk with the very few people I know. Is just so out of my range. That’s why I don’t have friends or a partner and I don’t see that changing.
EDIT: no, responding comments here or asking this question ISN’T having a conversation for me. So I don’t feel this as “progress”.
Yeah. I haven’t always been very comfortable with it, I made active effort to learn ways to make it easier.
I also lived in the Midwest for a while where asking someone “How are you doing” is an actual invitation to conversation and not just a response of “fine”. I learned some people are very open to chitchat with strangers, some people aren’t, and it gets pretty easy with practice to tell which is which noting body language and those first few words they respond to you with.
Also, you’re doing it now, OP. Way to go. Forum conversations like this totally count. Maybe next level up for you is some IM chatting with someone from a hobby group you’re interested in.
He is not doing it now though. Chatting online has nothing to do with real life talking to another person.
It totally doesn’t count dude. Especially since this isn’t my first language, or second, I have no use for English outside Google and pointless social media light usage.
Sooooo, do this but in a language that “counts”?