What stops people speaking a new language is not missing vocabulary; it is being unwilling to be heard sounding stupid.

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language learning How an adult picks up a second language: input against speaking practice, immersion against slow habit, and whether a teacher can do it for you.

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In the views onlanguage learningunder our view: Speaking starts before you are ready, and what stops people is embarrassment rather than vocabulary

What Benny Lewis actually said

Benny Lewis by 12 Oct 2012 Irish writer who spent his twenties travelling and speaking

Perfectionist and elitist learners will never accept being perceived as less than geniuses the entire time, so they will never expose themselves to sounding “stupid”, as they may perceive it.

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↗Speaking a language badly: how to get over the ego problemfluentin3months.com

by 12 Oct 2012

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