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?
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When you are hearing a language, you only have to understand one word at a time. Often from context clues, you don’t even need to understand every word.
To speak, you have to consider all the words that might go next, at the speed of spoken language. Then you choose one (or a phrase) and while your saying that you have to choose what goes next. That’s orders of magnitude harder, and causes stutters and “uhhh” filler sounds.
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