I listened to only the "degraded" sample, and I could understand it on the second listen. English is not my native language and I have pretty severe hearing los

I listened to only the "degraded" sample, and I could understand it on the second listen. English is not my native language and I have pretty severe hearing loss. I suspect the latter makes it easier for me in some situations to decode language with a lot of noise - I have a lot of practice guessing, I suppose. It would be interesting seeing some research on this.