Why am I so shy and nervous with English? Well there could be many reasons for this and this is a very common question. So I am gonna tell you the most common reasons for feeling nervous and shy when you hear English or when you try to speak English. Usually this comes from the way you learned English in school. And the problem in school is that they taught you to worry about mistakes, rihgt. They gave you a tasks and if you made a mistake they acts it was wrog and minus one, that’s a bad thing. Also some teachers, if they ask you a question in class in English, when you answered you made a mistake, they said “no no that’s wrong” they correced you.