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> As an adult, I’m damned near petrified to speak the language. Have a drink or two. Really. I've noticed I'm much better in a foreign language when I'm mildly
by bambax 8y ago
> As an adult, I’m damned near petrified to speak the language.
Have a drink or two. Really. I've noticed I'm much better in a foreign language when I'm mildly drunk (or at least I think I am, which helps get past the self-awareness block).
- nemosaltat 8y agoYou probably do! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0269881117735687?journalCode=jopa https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026988111773568...
- cgriswald 8y agoMe too. Two of my close friends are native Spanish speakers and when I’m a little drunk I can converse with them fairly fluently. When I’m not I can still do it but I’m very slow and make more mistakes.
- moufestaphio 8y agoSeriously, came to say this. Speaking wise it helps a lot. You stop worrying about the conjugation or sentence structure etc, and just communicate with the other person.