luuknam Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 If you needed an excuse to have a drink, here's a study: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171018113538.htm (obviously, not advocating giving kids alcohol) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gstharr Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Et tooo, Pluto? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahm Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 So very true! When I lived abroad, we joked about this all the time, but parties really were the best place to practice our language skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 This is so true. Times I could speak Chinese best back when I was living abroad... in dreams and mildly tipsy. I was probably downright fluent tipsy in a dream. I feel like there's a skill that a person can acquire if live somewhere where you don't speak the language fluently - it's like, the skill of being able to turn the few words you know into a conversation. I didn't even really realize this was a discrete skill until I was in Mexico with dh, who took Spanish all through school back in the day. I speak like ten words of Spanish. Somehow I turned my ten words and smatterings of French and Italian into being the one who had to do all the conversing and translating. Dh was beyond useless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Overcoming inhibition is a huge part of actually speaking a foreign language. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Whiskey helps with math tests too but I would love to find methods on how to replicate this confidence and laissez faire attitude sober... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 This is so true. Times I could speak Chinese best back when I was living abroad... in dreams and mildly tipsy. I was probably downright fluent tipsy in a dream. I feel like there's a skill that a person can acquire if live somewhere where you don't speak the language fluently - it's like, the skill of being able to turn the few words you know into a conversation. I didn't even really realize this was a discrete skill until I was in Mexico with dh, who took Spanish all through school back in the day. I speak like ten words of Spanish. Somehow I turned my ten words and smatterings of French and Italian into being the one who had to do all the conversing and translating. Dh was beyond useless. I realized this was a skill when traveling with my daughter. She was attending a local preschool while I went to language classes. She was so upset she couldn’t communicate her wants. I’m like, “you want to go on the big red slide and don’t know the words? You know red is rojo, big is grande, and have the ability to point, right? How is that not enough?†She had no idea that was actually a valid way to communicate. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiana Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Whiskey helps with math tests too but I would love to find methods on how to replicate this confidence and laissez faire attitude sober... Gosh. I don't think I could get away with recommending this to my students. I tell them to try hard candy to distract them, but ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Alcohol on the plane and you see strangers talking to strangers. My ex-colleagues would practice their Chinese on me since I don’t mind. Alcohol makes my alcoholic cousins swear more and they are already multilingual so the swearing gets very colorful. My husband scolds and complains in many different languages too so my kids has already pick up “the bad stuff†in different languages. Gosh. I don't think I could get away with recommending this to my students. I tell them to try hard candy to distract them, but ... My alma mater allowed coffee, tea, hot cocoa, Red Bull for drinks and chocolate or other “quiet to eat†foods for the exam hall. Almost everyone in my class brought coffee in for the three hour exams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkT Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 http://www.historyextra.com/qa/dutch-courage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lailasmum Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 When I was at university I lived with a girl who was raised in a Spanish speaking family and community until the age of 4 or 5 but then her mum remarried and she moved to somewhere that only spoke English and they spoke english at home. Over the years she lost her ability to speak Spanish fluently or even conversationally but when I knew her she was realising that when she'd had a few to drink a lot of her Spanish would come back to her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Whiskey helps with math tests too but I would love to find methods on how to replicate this confidence and laissez faire attitude sober... Also with music performances. Dh says that Valerian herb/supplement helps too, calms your mind so you stop over thinking... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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