I’ve found that a lot of my friends can understand a language, but lack the ability to read, speak, or write it, resulting in a lot of strange conversations where their parents speak a different language to them and they reply in English. How does this even happen?
In: Biology
Listening is passive, speaking is active.
When you listen to someone, all your brain needs to do is sit there and listen and understand the words being said.
But to speak, you need to start from scratch and formulate your own words and your own sentence. And then you need to send those signals to your mouth and throat to make the right sounds, and you might not be used to making those sounds.
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