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Devac  ·  2774 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Help request: spoken English

    That said I am not too surprised by Devac's request. My conversational English was also always behind on my written English, simply because it is much harder to get good practice. Knowing how to write in a second language doesn't translate that well into spoken proficiency as you might expect. The skills needed for spoken English are different from written because you need to do it on the spot without the dictionaries and deliberation that you can use while writing.

Exactly this. Plus talking in general is not something that's easy for me, language be damned.