Maybe he should try speaking out loud.
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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.
I absolutely hate places with "background" music that isn't in the background.
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.
There’s a brewery near me that gets so loud that my ears are ringing when I leave. And they don’t play background music. I don’t go there anymore
Noise deadening material that isn't also incredibly flammable is very expensive.
Not exactly true, Rock wool is a great material for this purpose and is cheap and safe. It's just that these products originated in the high end music world for recording studios or fancy setups in millionaire houses, so they just charge whatever they want.
so they just charge whatever they want.
So they're incredibly expensive?
Right, but it's not really because of the material. Also you can very much DIY for much cheaper.
Damn wish there was some other solution...
What exactly are you trying to say?
Lower the volume
And they don’t play background music.
They said there is no music, it's just loud people.
Maybe less snark, more reading comprehension next time?
Wow this could have actually happened:
Previously, Messi claimed he was too nervous to answer questions in English, despite taking language lessons since 2020, as per an interview with journalist Guillem Balague. "I've been learning English for a year and a half. I understand it, but I don't speak it," he said in 2021.
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.
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
understanding and producing and two entirely different skills, and for many people one of them makes them anxious
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.
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.
Japanese has a cheat code though. If you try to say English words with a Japanese accent they can mostly understand you. Words like hamburger and strawberry are a good example.
But strawberry are ichigo and not "stuawbelly", no?
The huge number of loanwords is a bit of a boon, but the benefits are canceled out by the small amount of sounds in the language. There are so many homophones and words with similar sounds that learning vocab is really difficult.
Also it was years before I found out that hambaagaa is a hamburger and hambaagu is a meat patty on a plate.
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.
I get this with my native language which country I still live in, Sweden, because I'm stuck at home the vast majority of the time due to illness and basically only read and watch things in English. So when I do get out I often forget Swedish words and have generally speak badly, it's kinda funny.
I can eavesdrop better than just about any other skill.
You would have been SUCH a successful spy 40 years ago when top secret stuff was still mainly via face to face conversations 😁
Them: Papiere bitte
Me: What? Uhhh I mean, was?
Them: 🤨
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.
How did you learn it? I'm actually curious because that would probably explain why.
I took some class in college, otherwise via apps like WaniKani, Duolingo and Busuu.
My guess would be textbook language vs reality slang.
So OP might be able to listed to a newspaper but would loose context in a slang-heavy tv show
Maybe also a case of dialect vs standard language
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.
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.
Smile and wave boys, smile and wave
Still would fit better in a Game of thrones episode.
But have you considered that ballons d'or of gold are always cold, but a woman's hands are warm?
He’s either a dick or a fool. I wouldn’t give two minutes to someone that’s okay being in Trump's orbit.
Messi or Sheeran?
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.
This is bad, but in his defence it seems like he was obligated to go as part of the teams duties, as opposed to choosing this. I know he has an option to speak out and refuse, especially with his profile, but he's always been shy and quiet. All he wants to do is play football.
he was also activly hiding money to evade taxes. I think he is not the golden boy every one thinks he is.
If you are not trying to avoid taxes you are dumb
Messi cabron traidor, quien te mandó a la casa blanca
They're kind of similar looking, lol
What are You talking about?
2 legs, 2 arms.
The amount of limbs you have can be a very identifying feature I suppose
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Watching Messi is like watching real-life magic. Doesn't even make sense half the time.
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