> As an adult, I’m damned near petrified to speak the language.
Have a drink or two. Really. I've noticed I'm much better in a foreign language when I'm mildly drunk (or at least I think I am, which helps get past the self-awareness block).
Have a drink or two. Really. I've noticed I'm much better in a foreign language when I'm mildly drunk (or at least I think I am, which helps get past the self-awareness block).
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026988111773568...
Speaking wise it helps a lot. You stop worrying about the conjugation or sentence structure etc, and just communicate with the other person.