How is the input of a different language understood, but the output of that language difficult?
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I’ll expand on speaking being active and listening being passive. Think about what’s physically happening. When you listen, sound waves hit your ear and your ear does ear things and sends sound information to your brain where it is processed and understood.
Now for speaking, you start with the understanding and generate the words. Now your muscles get involved, and there’s about 100 involved in speaking. You need to train all those muscles to work properly to make the sounds.
It’s the difference between watching Olympic gymnastics and understanding the routines and actually doing it.
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