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submitted 4 months ago by adrrdgz@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

well first of all. i seem to have a lot of problems with coming up with sentences or forming sentences in general. for example when i'm talking to americans or whatever i usually don't really know what to say. but i fully understand them!! and when i'm about to say something. it's almost as if i didn't know any words.. like. i don't know any other english words other than the basic stuff. how can i improve?? please help me. thank you

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[-] communism@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

I learnt english by reading books. That might help, although reading can be quite a passive activity, so you might want to couple it with some writing activities to make sure you're actually doing something so it sticks better. I'm also not sure how well that will work for your specific problem of struggling with conversations, but tbh I'm not great at speaking to people irl myself (although that applies in my first two languages—english is my third—as well so I don't think it's a language barrier thing so much as my brain thing) so I dunno what would help with that specifically.

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