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> Kyle <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote:
>> It surprises me that you can't speak English fluently.  It's definitely not
reflected in you writing skills.
> 
>   Writing something is easy because you don't have to think how it's
> pronounced. Also, when writing you can stop to think how to say something
> and you can go back and write something better and correct mistakes.
> If I don't remember some term I can go and look it in the dictionary or
> search the internet for it. Moreover, you can re-read what you have
> written before sending it.
> 
>   When speaking you have to produce something fluent and comprehensible in
> real-time, and you can't go back and fix a mistake or rewrite a sentence
> in a better way, and you can't go and consult the dictionary or the internet
> for a term you don't remember right now. What is worse, when speaking there
> are more things which can go wrong than when writing, most prominently your
> pronounciation. The worst case is when you simply don't know (or can't
> remember) how to pronounce something, even if your sentence would otherwise
> be completely fluent and good.
> 

Also, practice. You probably have more practice writing English than 
speaking English. (like me)

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