The thing about having multiple personalities sounds ridiculous but on second thought there might be something to it. The only thing we need to do now is to tap into this other personalites (maybe that is doable long term?). I will look into it. Do you remember where you first read this? Yesterday I started the reading out loud thing. I can tell that at least I get that fluency boost i experience everytime I spend a lot of time speaking after each session. I will have to wait and see for the long term effects but I am feeling very hopeful about it. At least it gives me another incentive to read (I havent been reading as much as i would like lately). At first I started reading the newspaper out loud but I didnt feel like I was making much progress since I was reading it without thinking about it. After that I decided to pick up a book I ve been meaning to read for some time and I translated it into spoken portuguese phrase by phrase. I feel like this second exercise replicated much more closely the experience of real speaking since it forced to me to think about each phrase a lot more. I will make sure to incorporate both exercises into my routine anyways, but I thought someone here might want to try the second exercise as well. Do you know any other exercises I might try? Thanks again for your reply