Speaking is Fast Writing—Practice by Writing Until You Can

I believe that writing practice can improve our speaking skills, as both rely on and can expand our active vocabulary.

Whenever I introduce this strategy to vocabulary-journal.com's prospective users, they might reject it, claiming that writing and speaking are two separate skills and writing practice can never improve our speaking. However, they would recommend comprehensive reading as the best way to improve speaking and writing.

This morning I came across this post on Reddit:

This Redditor has a large passive vocabulary, which is why they can easily read any materials in their target language. However, when it comes to output abilities, they fumble for words.

I'd like to contend that comprehensive writing is a more effective method than comprehensive reading to improve our impromptu speaking fluency. As this comment resuggests

This is not folk science; it's real, and here are some related studies: 1. Speaking and Writing Interconnections: A Systematic Review 2. The Impact of Guided Writing Practice on the Speaking Proficiency and Attitude of EFL Elementary Learners 3. The Effect of Writing Practice on Improving Speaking Skill among Pre-intermediate EFL Learners

Reading and written language influence each other, and spoken and written language, in turn, affect each other.

You're very welcome to practice writing on vocabulary-journal.com until you can speak without any struggling. Here is a brief introduction of our application: A Quick Tutorial for Busy People.

Keep journaling!