Why you understand English, but can’t speak it 🧐

If you understand what people say, it means that you already have vocabulary and grammar necessary to communicate.

You are being held back by two things: anxiety and lack of practice.

Few tips that help:
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- nobody cares about your English and you. People care about not wasting their time on you and moving on with their lives.
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- A majority of native speakers that you interact with would forget that you exist by tomorrow. The last thing they would think about is mistakes that you made while speaking.
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- You don’t have to raise your voice to be understood.
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- Smile, look people in the eye and shake girl’s hands (or a man s hand). In fact, being gloomy, staring down and trying to kiss a girl’s hand would feel a lot weirder than a grammar mistake.

Practice is easier:
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- if you make a grammar mistake, do at least 100 exercises till the rule that you are trying to learn becomes an instinct.
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- Sing along with your favorite songs, have lyrics to help.
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- Talk to yourself in English about things that happened during the day.
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