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When language anxiety sabotages real conversations

I have been studying Spanish for six years and still freeze when someone actually speaks to me at the grocery store and I want to disappear into the ground.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between intellectual knowledge and embodied expression reveals the terror of being truly seen and potentially judged.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Second language acquisition theory?”

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