Cues for people who stammers, comments appreciated.

[LifePak]

I would like people to comment on what i'm about to say.

Do you guys find that when we stammer, it's usually when we cannot think of the word at the right moment? I've been learning quite a few languages and it seemed as though for sentences that i practice over and over again, i would speak more fluently than the "normal" people. And it's them who stammers.

May i conclude that some of our problems are how much we practice talking? I'm thinking that the more we practice talking, the easier it gets when it comes to pulling our words out of our mind. Of course, there are also some neurological studies on it which states that it's a physical problem. It proves it when i go swimming and suddenly became more outgoing and a little more fluent in speech. But I don't stammer when speaking sentences in foreign languages that i've practiced many times.

Some poster here said that their jobs requires them to talk a lot, but i would like to ask whether their habit of talking is already formed. So when they speak, it may not improve their language ability due to bad habits. Or that they may need to speak a lot, but they still try to avoid it, and they may still talk comparatively less than normal people.

I mean since people who stammers tries to avoid conversation, would it have made it worse by practicing comparatively less than normal people?

I would really like to know whether we have people who practice talking a lot everyday for years but still stammers abnormally.

[Sup2u]

What do you mean by practice talking. I put myself in situations where talking is envolved just like "normal" people. I think the best way to overcome one's stutter is through experience. Keep talking. Don't be afraid.

[LifePak]

What i meant by practice talking is "to have a conversation with people or to explain something to people"
I stammer when i speak english and especially when i need to describe something that i haven't had the chance to practice beforehand. My ideas are always very original, just like how some of you guys described yourself, as "smart" people. But take notice that what people often talk about are other people's ideas. They basically talk about what other people say. Some of us, on the other hand, have very original ideas that came from our own logical mind or experiences. I would also conclude that this can possibly be one of the reason why we stammer. When we need to get our ideas across, we tend to speak with original ideas and we stammer.

The other thing i would conclude is that when *I* speak, i don't know about you guys. When i speak, i speak when I can feel my words. When words is spoken, i try to feel my chest what I want to say. That feeling, i assume, diversified our brain's capacity to focus our attention in completing our words, or our grammar.

Thirdly, i realize that my senses are different. In terms of auditory sense, especially comprehension through speech, I tend to shut down occasionally. Instructors would say something to the class and I would be like "can you repeat that again?". In contrast, when my friends hears a more difficult vocabulary i use, for example, "adamant". That word would capture their attention and they would ask what it means, and then they would repeat it to themselves "adamant". It is all done subconsciously. I realized how my friend reacted to the word because i was trying to master a new word and was also wondering if they understand it or not. It is then i realized how receptive they are with language as oppose to me. Through these little habits accumulated everyday, the result is that he grasped vocabulary and grammars much better than I.