It’s proven: alcohol improves speaking a second language
It’s always fun when our colleagues at Amayzine discover new facts. Because who knew that eating chocolate during your pregnancy results in a smarter child? Not us. And there’s good news for everyone who has always wanted to learn a second language. Because anyone who regularly gets tipsy learns a segundo lenguaje faster. Yes, that’s Spanish. And yes, you can learn it by pouring yourself some sangria or vino.
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Well, okay, that’s not quite how it works, but we all know that alcohol leads to less impulse control. Suddenly, you dare to do more. You do something faster without overthinking it. And that’s actually very useful if you want to learn to speak English, Spanish, Italian or Chinese better. A study shows that alcohol has a positive effect on us when we want to learn to speak a foreign language.
For a study, fifty Germans who had recently learned Dutch were divided into two groups. One group received a low dose of alcohol, while the other was allowed to drink a non-alcoholic beverage. Both groups were then allowed to have a conversation in Dutch for two minutes. The group that had consumed alcohol had noticeably better Dutch pronunciation than the sober group. And we’re guessing this applies to all languages. Alcohol really loosens tongues. Before you know it, you’re chatting away in Portuguese.
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It’s mainly because of people’s urge to be perfect. As in: perfectionism is what holds us back in many things that occur in everyday life. You don’t dare take big risks because you want to do everything perfectly. You don’t want to blunder, fail or mess up. That’s why, while on vacation, you don’t just dare blurt out ‘où est la plage’ to an attractive Frenchman, but instead stammer ‘where is the beach?’. Out of embarrassment. That drink leads to less perfectionism: you simply do it. Done. And that helps you learn French or German much faster. Suddenly, you speak a little French German, German French.
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