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Thanks for asking, I love this! At this very moment I'm studying in Edinburgh for a semester (but that's already over in about a week) so I've had plenty of time to figure that out. For the first three months pretty much nobody had ever noticed that I stuttered; not because I tried to hide it, but just because I didn't stutter. The last month that has changed a bit, as I started to stutter a bit more. Maybe because my English was improving, so that it was starting to feel a bit more like talking in Dutch? Or maybe because I started to become better friends with all the people I hung around with, so that I would feel less need to hide it anymore. Or just because stuttering is fucking weird, and there is no real logic behind it. Still, I stutter a lot less when talking English. I have never in my life had trouble doing presentations, I think because everyone is just quiet and will let me talk without interrupting me. However, since about a year (back home) I've had to do some presentations in English and suddenly I stuttered *a lot* during those, which really surprised me. I've had to do one presentation here in Edinburgh in English again, and that went without a single stutter. Maybe a year ago I was just nervous about that I had to present in English. Are you asking because you're a non-native speaker as well, or just out of curiosity?