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Your experience in Japan seems to support the findings of this study. Basically alcohol lowers inhibitions enough that people are less self conscious about spea
by tstrimple 7y ago
Your experience in Japan seems to support the findings of this study. Basically alcohol lowers inhibitions enough that people are less self conscious about speaking a foreign language and actually perform better.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0269881117735687?journalCode=jopa https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026988111773568...
- level3 7y agoI noticed this was definitely true for me during my first several years here in Japan. In normal conversation, I would end up overthinking my sentences and making mistakes fairly often, but when drinking all of the nervousness and extraneous thought went away, and I could speak faster and more fluently than I thought I was capable of. Even with vocabulary recall, I would sometimes be surprised with myself for using words I probably would never have remembered while sober. Of course I still made mistakes, but the fear of it was no longer an obstacle. Even now, I probably still speak more fluently when drinking, but I think the gap has almost disappeared.