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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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    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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