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Thank you, Egorte! Everything is fantastic on my side! Thanks for the kind words! First off, I am not a speech therapist, so I can only speak to my own experience, my own exercises and so on. I have no way of knowing for certain if my exercises would work for you. You are right, the breathing exercises are only a part of my routine. I mentioned it before on this post, but the other sections of exercises were : neck exercises, shoulder exercises, speech exercises, vowel prolongations, reading from a dictionary, and reading from a book. That was my speech improvement exercises routine that I did everyday for around 40 minutes to an hour. (I did other things outside of this, of course - going to the gym, speaking with strangers, opening up about my stutter.) However, the details of these exercises may not be important for you, as I said before. I can always show them to you, when you book your first free session with me. The link to do so can be found on my YouTube channel. I recommend you go to speech therapy for a month. Squeeze all that you can from the sessions - get the full list of exercises they have. Then you just do the whole routine at home. This is the easy part, the hard part is keeping consistent throughout the whole journey of improvement which may take some time. That's where I could help you - keeping you accountable, being the person with whom you can talk to, ask for advice and so on. I think this is the part that many people do not understand, speech therapy is only as effective, as you are disciplined and passionate to improve. As I said, I can always show you what worked for me - the specifics of my own routine. I can't replace a visit to your speech therapist, however I can help you with everything else. Sorry to hear that your therapy wasn't effective. How long did you go to it? What was the reason for it being ineffective in your opinion? I went to a bulgarian speech therapist and the vowel prolongation exercises used cyrillic vowels. I noticed improvement in my speech, as a whole. I never differentiated between speaking English, Bulgarian or German. When I conquered my stutter, it impacted all languages equally. My exercise routine doesn't involve any fluency shaping techniques. As a whole, I don't like them, I do think that they do more harm than good. I was always trying to speak my normal way without stuttering. I wasn't trying to change the way I spoke to decrease stuttering. Safe to say, I accomplished that and I speak without using any techniques now. I currently do not do anything to specifically "exercise" my speech. And I have been doing this for over a year now. I do not notice any regression in fluency, honestly it is getting better and better. You can see the comparison when you watch one of my earliest videos and my latest one. I am currently not "cured", as I always say, but my stutter has become so unnoticeable that people think I am lying when I say that I have one. Honestly, it is a problem I never thought I would have. You could say that because I constantly talk about stuttering on here or on YouTube, I "exercise" my numbness to the topic, but other than that I stopped my speech exercise routine a long time ago. I still do physically exercise, that is non-negotiable for me. I just try to live my life like I want, speaking to whomever I want, I don't focus on doing that as a form of fluency improvement anymore.