My native language is Mandarin. I stuttered when I was in kindergarten, and then my mom made me learn 相声 for a year. 相声 is a type of Chinese comedy show, similar to stand-up comedy. The basic training that I remembered is a lot of **tongue twisters**. And of course **a lot of talking**. I didn't stutter from then until high school. To add to that, in our country, when we were in school, students' tables were put together two by two, everyone has a tablemate and talks all day (adds up to **at least 2 hours talking** straight). As far as I can remember, after kindergarten and before university, I never had the slightest stutter. After that I went to university in North America. I didn't speak much because of my English was no good and i had social phobia, so my stutter came back. (I can do presentation though, don't know why.) I was not very self-repetitive, but I usually couldn't pronounce **certain consonants** no matter what, especially when i was excited or shy. I usually got stuck on some word, took some seconds to get it out or I'll just change a word. Now that I've graduated a few years ago, I speak a lot more (still far less than before university) and now don't stutter when I'm in a calm mood. I still stutter when I'm excited, and it's worse. I get stuck on certain words for tens of seconds, and the more excited I get, the longer it takes and the more **forehead pain** I get. In order to finish a sentence smoothly, I need to suddenly slow down several times and use a more standard Mandarin; or switch back and forth between dialect, Mandarin and English. **English was the language I was least familiar with and would instead make me stutter the least.** \[ Also, a bit of science inserted: certain nerves may be permanently stunted or damaged, which causes stutter. But the **human brain has a good capacity to compensate**. If you speak repeatedly and use speech functions repeatedly, it is possible that your stunted or missing neuronal cells will be replaced by other existing cells, or even grow new ones. In a normal person, the cerebral cortex is 4.5 cm thick and is connected to the spinal cord via the nucleus basalis. In the brain of a patient with hydrocephalus, less than 1 mm of brain tissue covers the top of the spinal column. But he had 126 in IQ test and also earned a degree in mathematics from a top university. According to [a paper on Science](https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.7434023). However, a full functional compensation is uncertain and **children's brain have significantly better ability to compensae than adults'**. I can't guarantee everyone can get rid of stutter like I was in kindergarten. \] I did not bother learning 相声 again, or talk 2 hours a day, but I have reason to presume that for stutter **similar to mine** (stuttering in excitement or fear of social interaction, with forehead pain, stuck on certain consonants) : **1. speaking more (preferably more than two hours), practicing tongue twisters / 相声, will improve stutter.** **2. learning a dialect / foreign language helps.** (although not everyone will understand it.) **3. avoid words that make you stuttering and become skilled at finding alternative words.** **4. The sonner you make a change, the better, because the younger you are the better your brain is able to compensate.**