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Alcohol has been suggested to improve a foreign language practitioners foreign language speaking abilities (https://time.com/4989850/alcohol-foreign-language-sp
by pcthrowaway 3y ago
Alcohol has been suggested to improve a foreign language practitioners foreign language speaking abilities (https://time.com/4989850/alcohol-foreign-language-speak/ https://time.com/4989850/alcohol-foreign-language-speak/)
Specifically, it seems that it lubricates one's ability to utilize the vocabulary one has already learned more fluently (possibly by removing some anxiety/inhibitions?). I believe it was not suggested to have an effect on comprehension.
Perhaps this can translate to programming languages as well to some extent?
- specproc 3y agoAnecdata: I live in a high-alcohol, high-language barrier environment in which I've got a limited but workable grasp of the local tongue. Getting smashed really does help, I've had great nights drinking with dudes who don't speak a word of English. I've always put this down to lowered inhibition. I've never felt my comprehension, grammar or vocab improved, just that my conversation partners and I were committed to getting hammered together, and persisting was the focus of the evening's entertainment for all concerned. In a sober situation, you're much more likely to give up.
- meowfly 3y agoI tell language learners that being brave is the most important way they'll learn. I have friends who have practiced English from a young age in cram schools until college, but they are still too timid to speak it. Despite their excellent reading ability, I feel like what really separates them and someone with high fluency is simply being willing to practice their spoken. I'm sure alcohol could help someone overcome that.