I'm a MUTE!

Ok, so clearly no one hears me when I speak, if they did wouldn't you think they'd respond, as eloquent as I am? Nope, it's really as though the words are not actually coming out of my mouth. Raise my voice, lower it, it makes no difference, blank stares are all I get. I'm trying Chinese people, I really am! Furthermore when they speak to me, though their lips move, I comprehend roughly.... NOTHING of their meaning. Oh sure I was something of a chatty Kathy at home, but here I'm seriously a mute.