Anyone has experience speaking without someone to correct your mistakes?
I’m about B2 in German and I think it helps at that point, especially if you couldn’t speak otherwise.
I’m about B1 in German although my speaking might be something like A2. I have a homestay coming up where I’ll probably improve a lot but it’s only a few months.
I’ve definitely heard folks say that early output is unhelpful or can even be harmful.
I tend to think it’s somewhat beneficial. Especially shadowing (repeating or speaking along with recordings of native speakers).
At some point you’ll have to practice generating messages in order to build that muscle. But I think more important is to do lots of listening and reading, so you start to build this intuition that tells you when “that doesn’t sound right”.
You should absolutely speak to yourself if you’re serious about learning a language.
I think any speaking is good practice :)