Challenges Speaking a Tonal Language with a Stutter

Challenges Speaking a Tonal Language with a Stutter I posted this on an earlier thread that asked about learning a foriegn language, but I want advice for my specific situation. Any opinion is fine. I am a stutterer with speech blocks and I have been trying to self-study Vietnamese so I can communicate with my inlaws. Vietnamese is a tonal language with a lot of glottal stops. The stops really aggravate my blocking. All the consonants in vietnamese are much harder, compared to their english counterparts. I mean "Harder" in the technical/linguistic sense; the sound of the consonant is sharper and force applied using the throat and tounge is greater. Normal speech techniques don seem to work. Ease ins, pull out, etc. Vietnamese speakers are very particular about pronounciation as many foreigners dont learn vietnamese, if I try to ease out of a block I am told I am suddenly unable to be understood AT ALL. The tones are easy for me when I'm having a fluent day, I can easily communicate with Natives when I am fluent, so my pronounciation is not the problem. However, when I block I try so hard to get the words out that when I finally say the word the Native speaker has no idea what I said possibly because my stutter messes up the tones. I'd like to know if any stutterers have learned Mandarin, Vietnamese or another tonal language specifically? Did you give up? Are you able to be understood? Any tips for me? I very much dont want to give up my dream of learning a foreign language, and also speaking and to my wife's mother in her native language one day.