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It really depends on the task, some people are better at speaking a foreign language after they've had a few drinks.
by itronitron 2y ago
It really depends on the task, some people are better at speaking a foreign language after they've had a few drinks.
- fsckboy 2y agooh, so that's why they become less intelligible to their native friends!
- gtirloni 2y agoI can confirm. While visiting Russia and having a few drinks with friends, I could understand everything perfectly even though my vocabulary was just a few words! Just kidding of course but we seemed to be understanding each other really well and later when everybody was sober, we recalled it being a good time.
- im3w1l 2y agoThe sober mind has been trained to carefully construct grammatically flawless sentences for the teacher. Hence the sober mind is hesitant, fearful and prone to second guessing itself. The drunk mind he knows it not matter. Tempo and rhythm importanter. No stopping. Know not how conjugate don't conjugate. Not remember word loan other lingua. Say story no stopping manier words is gooder.
- vundercind 2y agoI found that I had to get over feeling like I was mocking a foreign accent, before I could become even passably-for-someone-bad-at-it good at an accent for the one other language I've ever tried to semi-seriously learn. In fact, leaning into "mocking" it was the fastest way to improve. I bet that it's easier to get past that perceived faux-pas when a few drinks in....
- djmips 2y agoSame with music.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoI'm pretty sure a drunk mind can read what you commented with ease and get the point, while a sober mind would get stuck and think "what is this" and do multiple takes before getting the point.