I'm from Arabian countries my level doesn't very high in English language to write professional articles ,so I'm going to try and discuss about this topic , firstly in my countries when someone wants to learn a new language there is no big problems especially in speaking or pronunciation side. Just the problem probably can happen as usual is in the writing. From advantages side as I am seeing in my community alots of them have fluency in speaking skills. As for reading and listening thay are different between person to another person , but thay in generally have good level especially the person who already learned a new language.for example, when a person leaned Chinese language then wants to learn English language that will become more easy to him or her because they know the ways or methods their minds can understand easily. In summary , leans new language is becoming more easy than ever, that because these days we have alots from learning Resources such as the most important resources worth mention absolutely is internet also social media, thay are more effective than normal study such as schools or Institute as for my self I admire study alone strongly .

For Chinese, I think most of us can be really shy at the beginning. I have been learning English for a long time. However, when I was at school, I barely spoke any English. On the one hand, the speaking skill was not tested at school so the English classes did not focus on it at all. On the other hand, I felt I just did not know how to start. Worrying about making mistakes is not the main issue. It takes time for me to use language as a tool to communicate with people. I could not speak at all at the beginning enven I can read pretty well. But I picked up the spoken skills pretty fast since I had already knew them in a way. I think once peopel reach at a certain level of fluency, they will speak more confidently, no matter where they come from.