[WhisperingSilence]

This sounds abit like me in my karate class. I'm one of the quieter ones in my class for karate and when I do sometimes talk I find people do occaisonally talk over me or have occaisonaly sniggered - over time I found as I got more used to talking in class and became a little more confident... I've like somewhat learned to ignore these sniggers etc. Could you maybe ignore the looks etc when you do talk in class ? Would it be possible for you to maybe at the end of class maybe have like a little private chat with your teacher? I found this helped me. I let me instructor know about my issues with speaking in large groups and she now does usually tell the guys in my class to shhhhh etc if I do like speak in class.