My point is speaking early on doesn't help with learning the language and isn't a barrier. On the contrary, it slows down progress. You shouldn't try to speak o

My point is speaking early on doesn't help with learning the language and isn't a barrier. On the contrary, it slows down progress. You shouldn't try to speak or even attempt to write sentences until you have large enough vocabulary in your brain with all the proper pronunciation and spelling associations and patterns, like to understand 80% of the words in a random article large vocabulary (or more, it takes many years to get to 99% and higher). Otherwise you will learn wrong things and form associations with wrong pronunciations because you had to make assumptions due to broken methodology and those take a long time to get rid of and relearn.