According to the new study, alcohol also removes social anxiety. That is, the nervousness or uneasiness in the mind after seeing many people goes away with alcohol.
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We all know that drinking alcohol harms health. It damages the heart, kidney and liver. But a new research has also told the benefits of alcohol. It has been claimed in the research study that alcohol improves the language skills of a person. Especially foreign language skills. That is, in the Indian context, a person starts speaking English after drinking alcohol.
You must have also noticed that even that person, who does not even know the English language, starts speaking English under the influence of alcohol. It has been told in this research study that if a person gets intoxicated with alcohol, then he starts speaking some other foreign language. This study has been published in the journal Psychopharmacology.
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According to the report of Science Daily, researchers from King’s College London, Liverpool University and Maastricht University have done this study together. Researchers have told that after drinking alcohol, the skill of the second language of bilingual people improves and they start talking fluently in that language.
…when Germans began to speak Dutch
In fact, the researchers tested it on some people studying at the Dutch University in the Netherlands, whose mother tongue was German. Those people were given alcohol in small quantities. All these people spoke German and had recently started learning the Dutch language. After serving them, some Dutch people were also made to sit with them who did not drink alcohol. And then the dialogue between the two types of people started.
The researchers recorded this conversation between the two types of people. It was found that when the dialogue took place, the German speakers who were still learning Dutch, started talking with the Dutch people in fluent Dutch. Later, when these people were asked to rate themselves on speaking Dutch, everyone was surprised at their own language skills. His ability to speak Dutch had increased considerably.
Alcohol boosts confidence!
It is necessary to have intellectual ability and confidence to speak English or any other foreign language. The common knowledge about alcohol is that it spoils the intellectual capacity of humans and has a bad effect. But in this new study the results are opposite. New study says that alcohol strengthens intellectual capacity and it also increases self-confidence manifold.
Gone are the nervousness, anxiety and shyness!
According to this new study, alcohol also removes social anxiety. That is, the nervousness or uneasiness in the mind after seeing many people goes away with alcohol. Due to the influence of these two, when there is a conversation with other people, then the person’s ability to speak in another language also increases. On the other hand, when the intoxication of alcohol breaks, the person feels that his second language skill has improved a lot and he can talk fluently.
(Disclaimer: Alcohol is injurious to health. Doctors advise to stay away from it. We do not recommend consumption of alcohol. This research study is just to increase your knowledge.)