My reading and listening in English for two years while my speaking did not.
The reason was simple: I never spoke, because there was nobody to speak to.
A teacher suggested speaking alone for five minutes a day and it.
The first s were painful to listen to and full of long .
I my day, my journey to school and what I had eaten.
After a month the were shorter, although the were the same.
Then I began writing down the three I heard most often.
Fixing three specific things is possible; fixing everything at once is not.
When I finally spoke to a foreign visitor at my uncle's shop, my hands and the sentences came out.
Five minutes a day for six months had built something that a hundred hours of listening had not.