A version of this happened to me when I was young. I was lucky enough to be invited to dinner with a famous scientist. I spent a good chunk of time pitching my work (looking for a faculty position). At the end of the night he apologized and said he was sure I was very interesting but he couldn’t hear over the music.
Language barrier
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DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I absolutely hate places with “background” music that isn’t in the background.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Restaurants that properly handle noise are awesome. Busy ones can get loud even without music, but if they take steps to address sound reverberation, it can make a huge difference.
Some places are so loud, employees should be required to wear hearing protection.
Baleine@jlai.lu 1 week ago
Smile and wave boys, smile and wave
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 week ago
He’s either a dick or a fool. I wouldn’t give two minutes to someone that’s okay being in Trump’s orbit.
Ibisalt@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Messi or Sheeran?
zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Messi. He visited the white house not too long ago as PR for the world cup, and also to highlight the diplomatic ties between Trump and Javier Milei.
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Still would fit better in a Game of thrones episode.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
But have you considered that ballons d’or of gold are always cold, but a woman’s hands are warm?
FluidBeef@quokk.au 1 week ago
Maybe he should try speaking out loud.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They’re kind of similar looking, lol
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What are You talking about?
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Forehead nose cheekbones chin. Face shape similar in my honest opinion.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They just two boys doing their best
NahMarcas@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Messi cabron traidor, quien te mandó a la casa blanca
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 1 week ago
I just find it funny that Messi has been in the public eye since he was a teenager but nobody ever bothered to make him learn English.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 1 week ago
An Arginine playing in Spain and France, is supposed to find English useful?
wieson@feddit.org 1 week ago
Is your conception that the public eye is anglophone?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Watching Messi is like watching real-life magic. Doesn’t even make sense half the time.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
No money or success will make you smarter.
Miaou@jlai.lu 1 week ago
TIL speaking English makes you smarter
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Thats the only reason he spent 5 min w that annoying ginger.
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Wow this could have actually happened:
Source
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Funny, it really is easier to get the gist of what someone is saying in a foreign language that one has some familiarity with, but constructing a sentence with the correct words and grammar is a completely different game.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
So very much this, I’ve been living in a foreign country for 6 months now and taking language classes. I can eavesdrop better than just about any other skill. Including understanding when spoke too directly.
Doesn’t help basically everyone speaks English.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
Yep. Reading a book or watching a movie in Spanish is as easy as English to me. Speaking? I can definitely hold a conversation but it won’t be fluid or elegant at all.
To be fair I spend a ton more time listening to Spanish than speaking it. Consuming content is easy, social interactions hard lmao
Paddzr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It blows my mind because my wife can hear and read other languages and translate it with insane accuracy, but she wouldn’t be able to hold a conversation.
My English speaking brain can’t do it.
Luxyr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I’m the opposite with Japanese, at least. I can construct sentences and know what to say, but when native speakers talk to me, I just can’t follow well at all.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Sometimes it can be the opposite as well, because missing a key word or two renders all the other stuff you understood in the sentence basically useless. If you understood “He has a new X and he’s gonna try Y tomorrow,” you got everything except the gist, but constructing basic sentences doesn’t take all that much study.
Anyway, I’d recommend not trying to do Japanese through immersion.
Carrot@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I’m curious how it is for other languages, but I find that in English I can usually understand someone trying to explain something using incorrect words and bad grammar if we go at it long enough
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
understanding and producing and two entirely different skills, and for many people one of them makes them anxious
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Yeah, I remember going through that period when started learning English, but also attending other classes that I was passionate about and didn’t want to wait.
I understood everything the teacher said, but tough luck if I had any question. I remember trying to ask once and teacher trying to figure out what I was asking.
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I think anybody who’s bilingual or attempting to learn another language or done some duolingo classes can relate to a degree.
Reading/writing, speaking, and listening can feel like different skills.
7101334@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There’s also, at least for Spanish but probably for other languages too, a significant difference between the academic version and the colloquial version.
I assume it’s sort of like if you, as an English speaker, only spoke as if you were composing a college essay.