It's not (solely) anxiety, Lex. I think it has more to do with your low communicative competence and pronouncedly poor linguistic performance. Under "competence", I mean the mental knowledge you have of your first language, combined with the social knowledge how and when to use utterances properly. Which is also an aspect of the linguistic performance -- the actual use of language in concrete situations; the production and comprehension of language. <br><br>In your case both are underdeveloped, although not horribly sub-standard.