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Stutter in Second Language I'm an international student in the U.S and started my Master of Computer Science program about 2 years ago. I moved to the U.S when my English was in a good state and enough to make a start in an academic level. So long story short, my english got improved in the first few months but has been stuck since then. All my other international classmates who started this program around the same time are speaking english very fluently now except me. I am not sure what is causing it but I feel like my stutter is holding me back. I stutter more in english than my native language and my anxiety level is higher than before. Speaking another language alone is challenging enough even without stutter, so I've found communication quite hard and frustrating. Anyway since my english level is almost the same as 2 years ago I am too afraid that I'll never be able to improve it any further than this. My other english skills like writing, reading and listening has been improved significantly except my speaking, which is very sad... Fortunately people like my accent here, but still my anxiety kicks in when I want to talk to a native English speaker and I have not made any native speaker friend to kind of overcome this fear. Sorry just wanted to share my sadness with you and see if any of you had/has the same experience with a second language, if yes any tips would be appreciated.