postr/StutterOctober 7, 2025

Multilingual people, do you stutter more in one language than the others?

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Multilingual people, do you stutter more in one language than the others? I know three languages; English which I’m most fluent in, Bengali which I was raised with and Arabic which I am still learning. I find that I stutter more in Bengali and Arabic, especially Arabic, as I haven’t built the mental jumps like I have in English to skip words if I feel like I’m getting stuck. This frustrates me a lot because I know I can convey so much more when I speak Arabic but I end up staying silent and looking like I don’t know how to speak. I also found that when I was in an Arabic speaking country, my fluency did improve but it has since regressed.

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Causes & VariabilityAnticipation & Avoidance

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Severity & FluctuationAvoidance & Substitution