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From: Stefan Hoffmann, Beijing
Date: 10/6/01
Time: 2:03:27 PM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.167
I am a German stutterer, I learned 7 foreign languages (english, french, spanish, russian, latin, japanese, chinese). I speak NOW English and Chinese quite fluently, as I have reached a level of speech proficiency where I do not have to think too much of the words I want to say and can keep to the melody of the sentence once I got started. An other factor is self confidence, which I gained after being involved in the self help movement for 10 years now. However, there I met also people who stutter LESS in foreign languages, as they reportedly "become another person", "play another role" when talking "foreign".