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Originally Posted by LektorAJ
You're right that most people have a higher level at the passive understanding skills (reading, listening) than they have at actively producing the other language (writing, speaking) but in 12 years of running language schools I have come across a few people for whom speaking is easier than listening.
When one can speak and write at basic level, it doesn't mean one will understand the full blown language as written and spoken.
It takes one full time year to learn the basic grammar and basic vocabulary. During the second year one learns to write and speak at that basic level (and memory develops stronger).