postr/StutterJuly 21, 2025

Stuttering due to speaking multiple languages?

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Stuttering due to speaking multiple languages? Hello people of the internet I was a stutterer around the age of 6-7 but it went away relatively quickly. How 2 years ago (I'm 24 now), my stuttering came back. And it affects a certain language more than it does others. I speak 3 languages all of which I speak or I should rather say spoke fluently. Dutch is my native language English I speak fluently Turkish I also speak fluently My stuttering is the worst when I speak Turkish, I can't say the words I want to. I can't pronounce the letters properly. And honestly , I can't even make a sentence without stuttering in Turkish. Also I don't stutter in the sense where I repeat a letter until I get it out. I rather have a "block" where there's like a second of silence and then I pronounce the letter (usually not properly, as it should be). Is anybody else here struggling with this, any tips? Advice? Thank you

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Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & StutteringCauses & Variability

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Feared Words & NamesBlocks & StoppagesSituational Variability