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Tips for foreign language learning? I'm generally fairly confident despite my stutter as well as OK with its level (sure, I can't buy bread at the bakery without it being a spectacle, but it's manageable at work and fades to nearly nothing when I'm chatting with friends). There is, however, one thing that's a major problem, and that's learning foreign languages. I dove into learning Spanish a few years ago, and my stutter immediately ballooned to never before seen levels. As soon as I tried to speak Spanish I got properly stuck on not just every word, but every syllable. By the time I managed to struggle through to the end of a sentence, even I had managed to forget how it had started. I even stuttered badly when talking to myself while alone, which is a situation I'd always been totally fluent in before. I managed to battle through that and by now my stutter is only a little worse in Spanish than it is in German or English, but it was absolutely miserable for a long time. I'm now considering starting a new language and the idea of going through that again does... not fill me with joy. Has anyone had similar experience with a terrible starting phase, and have any tips for avoiding, or at least reducing the duration of, it? I have a few ideas (trying to practice by speaking along with a recording to leverage the choral effect, or doing a ton of listening before I start trying to speak to try to internalize the speech rhythms) but I have no idea if they'll work and I'm not finding anything online.