Why your favourite tipple can help your foreign language skills
According to the winner of this year’s IG Nobel Prize, the Netherlands can really help with a foreign language speaking.
Researchers at the University of Bath found that students were better in speaking a foreign language after enjoying an alcoholic beverage.
Dr Inge Kersbergen, who wrote the work published here Journal of PsychopharmacologyAfter drinking water or a small vodka and lemon from 50 German students, he asked him to chat in his new languages.
Native Dutch speakers who do not know who was drunk, rated the more fluent ones than those who tilted and abstained.
Vodka drinkers had a smoother pronunciation, and researchers suspect that they have lower levels of anxiety and allow them to speak more freely.
However, Dr. Kersbergen emphasizes that this does not mean that drinking shots will help students pass the exams.
Students were given equivalent to drinking one glass of wine, but may have an unwanted effect on language skills.
“Our study emphasizes how a small amount of alcohol can reduce language anxiety, and I do not recommend that anyone can use alcohol to improve their fluency in the second language,” said Times.
“In my opinion, how complex and fascinating the real package, psychological processes support communication in the second language.”
The IG Nobel Prizes, which are given every September, honor the interesting scientific achievements that first make people laugh, then think ”.
It is organized every year by Science Humor Magazine Uncertainty Research Annals, And this year’s winners received an award at a ceremony at Boston University on Thursday.
In general, Ig Nobel, including studies such as 10 categories, excellent pasta sauce and nail growth survey for decades, have been given to Ig Nobel this year.
In the physics category, it was an international team of researchers from Austria, Italy, Germany and Spain, which broke the perfect Cacio e pepe pasta, a iconic Italian dinner celebrated for its simplicity.
The chemical award was given to the researchers who investigated whether the dust teflon (PTFE), a chemical coating of non -stick pans, could be used to increase food volume and satiety without adding extra calories.
Apart from Japan, another team received the Nobel Prize parody to find out that the Japanese beef cows painted with white lines pulled fewer flies with spray painted.
