The Path to Fluency: Why Speaking Practice is Essential
Most intermediate learners I talk to have the same complaint. They understand English movies, can read articles without a dictionary, and write reasonably well, but the moment a real conversation starts, the words won’t come. Then they ask what to study to fix it, and the honest answer is “less.” You don’t have a knowledge problem. You have a retrieval problem. The only thing that fixes a retrieval problem is using language under time pressure, which means speaking, with all the discomfort that involves. ...