In learning a foreign language, one should first pay attention to speaking.It is the ground-work（基础）of reading and writing. You’d better try your best to speak. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. While you are doing this, a good exercise is to write --- keep a diary, write notes or letters and so on. Many mistakes in your speaking will be easily found when you write.Through correcting the mistakes, you can do better in learning a language. If you are slow in speaking, you are reading in this way, don’t stop to look up the words if you can guess their meanings or if they are not important to the sentence. You can do that some other time. Speaking is the ground-work while you are learning a foreign language.