Is it possible for someone to understand a language but not be able to speak it?
Is it possible for someone to hear and understand a language, but not be able to speak it?
What does it feel like to understand a language you don't know how to speak? How do you learn to speak a foreign language? I have read that one of the cardinal can speak and has fluency in 72 languages, how it was possible? Does brain allow us to learn these many languages? What is it like to be able to speak and truly understand more than 5 languages fluently (including slang etc.)? Is it impossible or difficult for native English speakers (Anglophones) to learn foreign languages? What is the quickest way a person can learn to speak a new language fluently? How do people with no common language communicate? Can a deaf person hear what he speaks? How is learning a language different for people who are deaf? Have you ever met someone who learned a foreign language as an adult (at least 18 years old) and spoke the language flawlessly and without an accent? Specific Languages: How does Turkish sound to someone who doesn't speak it at all? What is the best method of learning to speak a language? How do people who don't share a common language understand each other? What is the toughest thing to grasp while learning a new language? How do people who are born deaf learn the language we usually talk? Is it possible to teach yourself a language? What is the best way to self-learn a language and be able to speak fluently? Have you ever caught someone talk bad about you in English when they think you don't speak or understand the language? What have people said about you when they thought you didn't know how to speak their language? What does is feel like to be able to speak more than 3 languages? How do I travel the world, while not knowing a thousand languages? Why can't I speak intelligently? Is it possible for a native English speaker to learn fluent Finnish? Theoretically, if somebody was an adult who had never learned a language, how would you go about teaching them English? What is the best way to learn a foreign language? (Assuming that you are already in that foreign country and that country doesn't speak or understand even a single English word.) What's the easiest foreign language for a native English speaker, living in America, to learn to speak? How did you learn to speak several languages? What is the best way to learn how to speak a language fluently? If you could learn any language fluently what would it be? What does an interpreter do when they encounter a word they don't know?