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3 hours ago, Dmitry Krutov said:

People, who have been made this mistake wherever in the past, should pass through a long period to "retraining" ignoring patterns in the brain. It relates to the motor cortex first (how you move muscles in your mouth to pronounce words) , but as second, includes  problems in audio cortex too (people just can't hear a difference between closest sounds).

You are right. Our first language determines how we respond to other languages. And as stated we have to learn to reprogram our brain.

Yes, the same happens to me. When I speak French I find the word in Spanish and vice versa Lol

Hi. Is there anybody learning French ?
 I have been studying French for a while now. I'm a level B1 intermediate. I can read easily, understand with a bit of effort but when it is speaking time more often than not my mind goes blank. I would like to know, am I the only one? Or what are the problems you have with French?

There are some great advice here, but i would only like to add that for a beginner you should complement all the youtube videos and so on with a basic beginner’s book to give you the initial structure of the language. You should also bear in mind that there is no quick fix in language learning. it takes time and effort. Good luck

There a technique called “shadowing” where you do an active listening and speaking exercise. You choose an audio from a native speaker and you repeat every every sentence after the speaker word for word using the same intonation as him/her. At first is a bit hard but with practice you’ll become better until you can almost repeat simultaneously. You will see that with consistency and patience your accent will improve considerably. This blog post about the shadowing techniqur might help you. https://speak-fast-languages.com/blog/1107355/shadowing-technique-imitation