You Don’t Speak Because You’re Waiting to Be Sure
Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

You Don’t Speak Because You’re Waiting to Be Sure

Many people believe they don’t speak a foreign language because they lack confidence. That’s only half true. What really stops them is something else:they are waiting to be sure. Sure about the grammar.Sure about the word choice.Sure about correctness.Sure about how it will sound. And while they are waiting, nothing happens. Why Certainty Feels Necessary […]

Timur Timur
28.12.2025 2 min read

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