Barriers, by Rolando Niella, illustrates clearly in the beginning of the texts of how frustrated he is for the sake of managing his source of frustrations which is the crucial phenomenon of daily conversation and how he associated it with his disappointment in playing tennis. Throughout the article, Rolando Niella portrays how desperation in being able to speak a foreign language can lead to frustration along with other reasons. He includes his own experiences in adapting to a new environment after he got admitted to a college in Massachusetts and had to undergo a process where he felt a lack of confidence because of his language's level. All these reasons are somehow generate the sense of frustration in one's mind. Frustration in general is related to anger and disappointment which arise from the perceived resistance to the fulfilment of an individual's will. To overcome such struggles, we have to be rational in every step that we take to improve ourselves or to free ourselves from those barriers. On the early paragraphs of this article, I used to think that the comparison between playing tennis and living as foreign student made no sense of relationship as I did not manage to connect those two different things in a way the author wanted the readers to be. The author made an attempt to explain his complex feelings due to his communication problem by associating it to his experience in learning tennis which is also hurting his pride. In my opinion, practices and preparations are needed in order to overcome such obstacles in order to improvise his skills. If we are ready to change, we will not have any problems in preparing ourselves to improve in the future. For an amateur foreign speaker to speak other than his or her native language and for a beginner tennis player to master the game, one needs to find an optimistic viewpoint in a negative situation in order to let vague fears hold he or she back from doing what one's want. On the