How can a person understand another language but not be able to speak it?

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My mom is able understands my dad and other family friends when they’re speaking their tribal language. Same thing with my best friend, she understands her mother but replies in English. I never understood how that works.

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Person understands the meaning of sentence, but doesn’t have enough knowledge to build the sentence himself, so it would be hard to understand them, that’s how. Also person could have problems with pronounciation, so sentence would be hard to understand.

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