You can’t get fluent in a language without this

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  Today I'm going to talk about output, I'm going to talk about speaking,

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  and I'm going to explain why I don't worry or spend too much time thinking about output or speaking.

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  When I get the chance, I speak in the language that I'm learning,

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  but it's not the focus of my learning activities.

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  So for example, last night my wife and I were at a local Japanese restaurant,

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  so I spoke a little Japanese, some of the staff were Korean,

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  I spoke Korean, I even read some Korean.

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  There was a small group of Persian speakers there, so I spoke with them in Persian.

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  Whatever came out came out.

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  I like to use the language that I'm learning.

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  I will speak, given any opportunity I will speak,

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  but most of my study time is spent on input, spent on getting the language in me.

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  And there's a very good reason, because when I speak English, which is my native language,

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  my most comfortable language, I rely on an sort of automatic ability to produce the language.

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  Automaticity.

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  It's automatic.

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  When I speak another language, I have all kinds of obstacles.

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  Now I have to worry about gender and grammar and structures and there are a number of things that make that language less automatic for me to produce.

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  So my goal in acquiring that language is to make the process of producing the language as automatic as possible.

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  Automatic doesn't mean Perfect.

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