My oldest son thinks in pictures. He had a really hard time learning to verbalize what is in his head. It has gotten better, but he still sometimes makes errors

My oldest son thinks in pictures. He had a really hard time learning to verbalize what is in his head. It has gotten better, but he still sometimes makes errors similar to non native speakers, because he literally does not think in English and things sometimes get lost in translation. I homeschooled him. I worked with him to help him learn to verbalize and I still serve as his sounding board on a regular basis. I also get a lot out of communicating with people. I do that a lot on the internet. Saying it in writing to other people gets fairly rapid feedback as to how effectively you expressed what you meant. (I went down in flames online a lot for a while. It isn't the most fun I ever had, but I learned a lot about what not to do.) So, you need to find some means to more effectively access your thoughts and train up your ability to more rapidly translate what is in your head into spoken words. Because my son thinks in pictures, we used a lot of image rich sources to help him with that. He read comics and other illustrated works and we used educational sources like Grammar Rock and Vocabutoons to help him work on individual pieces of the language puzzle in isolation. He couod not cope at first with trying to put it all together. So, find an educational source that resonates with you. It may not be image rich products. Maybe you will do better with audio sources or something else. But find something that clicks for you and start working on individual pieces of this. If you can find a person to serve as a sounding board, that might be a good thing too. One means to do that might be to get a jogging buddy. Talking side by side is a very different experience from talking face to face. My sons and I live without a car, so we spend a lot of time walking together to get around. It fosters good conversation. You see this phenomenon as well in cars. People sitting next to each other are more comfortable being chatty than people face to face. You see this phenomenon play out with how people talk with cab drivers, for example.