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Dificulties on speaking! Hello everyone! I would like to share my disappointment with you. I've been studying English sorely last months, and I still having problems with conversations. Maybe I'm doing it the wrong way, but I'll keep trying. I think I can read, listen, and write in English on upper intermediate level but my speaking stands a level under. When I'm trying to talk in English, it's always a hard time to me because I never be sure if my sentences building are fine. Besides that, I keep thinking on Portuguese sentences building model while I'm speaking English, and it's obvious that it will not work but, as I said, I'll keep training; I hope some day the speak English process could be easier to me.

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Difficulties in speaking!

Hello everyone! I would like to share my disappointment with you. I've been studying English  hard during the sorely last few months, and I'm still having problems with conversations. Maybe I'm doing it the wrong way, but I'll keep trying. I think I can read, listen, and write in English on the upper intermediate level but my speaking is stands a level below. under. When I try I'm trying to talk in English, it's always difficult a hard time to me because I'm never be sure if my sentences building is  are fine/correct. Besides that, I keep thinking in Portuguese sentences building model while I'm speaking English, and it's obvious that it will not work but, as I said, I'll keep training; I hope some day the English speaking English process will could be easier for to me.

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From what I have read on this site and others, I think what you are feeling is common to adult learning any foreign language. Several months ago I was spending so much time working on learning Spanish that I decided to research what are the more effective and less effective ways to learn a foreign language, so that I would use my time in an efficient manner. I read 13 books on the process of learning foreign languages. One thing I learned was that speaking requires the development of additional skills beyond comprehension, listening, reading, and writing, and those skills do develop much slower. Also no amount of listening, comprehension, and reading can build those additional skills that are exclusive to speaking. One does just have to accept that speaking is harder and it takes longer to develop speaking fluency. It comforts me that I work with children and have definitely noticed that their speaking ability also lags far behind their listening and comprehension skills, probably by several levels. I think as adults our expectations about speaking are unrealistic because we forget how many hours of immersion were put into learning our first language. Even when we were 6 years old, and had had 6 years of immersion, our speaking abilities were not held to the same expectations that adults tend to have about how well we should be able to speak after 6 years of learning a foreign language.

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