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I suspect "music" means different things for people. Any time I have vocals / lyrics in music, it drags my attention away - so I only listen to non-vocal (in m

• hinkley 5y ago
  When this has come up before there are always a couple people who say they can't listen to music in a language they know, but listening to another language doesn't bother them. For me, and one of the reasons I HATE open office plans, I cannot focus if I can almost hear a conversation. Speaking at a normal tone would be far less distracting. Similarly, someone is speaking in a language with too many borrow words in English. Overhearing Germanic languages in particular, my brain keeps trying to treat it like an English speaker with mush-mouth or having a stroke. If I just squeeze my brain harder with my furrowed brow, it will all make sense.
• mlok 5y ago
  An alternative may be to listen to songs in a language you don't understand.