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This is something I'm actually trying to be more aware of - not trying to "keep up" with whoever I'm talking with. I find that if I change the framing to suit my pace, if I stutter it will at least be...

I get steamed listening to people ramble on

I get steamed listening to people ramble on Just gotta blow off some steam, sorry in advance for ranting. I just realized why I get subconsciously upset listening to some people talk. It's a pet peeve...

Speaking is a complicated motor action made up of many components( thinking about words,hesitation,rhythm,muscle coordination, breathing coordination). If you take away one of these components, your s...

Those two are not the same and place a different demand on your speaking system. When reading out loud you can anticipate words and you aren't communicating with someone. ...

What you describe is common. If we have a certain "mental bandwidth", in our native language more bandwidth is freed up for creating fluent speech. We don't have to concentrate as hard so we can all...

It's so very frustrating. I don't know if it makes me want to work harder at learning or just drop it altogether. :(...

That's really interesting! I thought something like that would be the case. Your story gives me hope. Maybe I just need to practice speaking it more and it'll get easier.... I hope. ...

Portuguese speaker here. In portuguese I would classify my stutter as mild, but in english it does flares up, like you said. But things weren't like this always, a few years back I used english more o...

Yeah, I'm learning Spanish, and I stutter a lot when speaking it, so people just think I don't know anything about the language ...

Hey! Native English speaker here. When I started learning German I became aware that I didn't stutter, or if anything it was a lot, LOT less. I think this boiled down to the fact that my mind wasn't ...

It's not an advantage at all--sure, it can make you unique for a while, but after that people will be tired of listening to you, since you keep stuttering costantly. But that's my point: yes, stutteri...

I stutter so much when I speak Spanish. Makes talking to my grandmother very difficult. ...

I've noticed I don't stutter as much in German either, and I think it's because the sounds are harsher, there's no room to stutter, if that makes sense. ...

I only stutter in Korean and Im fluent af in English... Weird shit the brain is eh?...

I wanted to learn Japanese, then I realized there a lot of sounds that trigger my stutter. So maybe some languages are more prone to stuttering? ...

That's the infuriating thing about stuttering: it's the buffet of speech disorders. What works for one is useless for another. For my part, I'm a high school teacher. Telling my students that I stut...

Yeah I do the same thing! If I'm telling a story I stutter less but if I'm asked something, stuttering is the very first thing I do :/...

Would it help if I prefaced with "In my experience"? Because that's all it is. I'm not stating it as a rule or nothing. But growing up in East Texas and not having an interest in hunting or sports, I ...

I think it has a lot more to do with passion and enenry than swearing. Whenever I am really passionate about something, I almost forget that I stutter. When you swear you are generally speaking with p...

I have the exact problem. When I try to regale my friends with a funny incident, I stammer the most. ...