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I don't know why, but someone speaking in the background in a language I don't speak drives me insane. It doesn't have to be loud, I don't have to be trying to concentrate on anything especially hard, but if it doesn't stop after a couple of minutes, I basically just have to go somewhere else.
No idea why. I don't think it is any subtle racism, because it's every language. It's like my brain won't let go of trying to understand, and keeps wanting to notify me that it's having trouble and needs my help with it.
That would make sense, your brain definitely is trying to make sense of it because syllables, sentences, vocal emotion, etc are all there, so there are certainly patterns that can be picked up on, but none of it matches the existing language centers you have.
As to why you might get more frustrated than others about it, who knows, brains are weird and I’m not a neuroscientist
Alternating languages kind of makes me insane. I have to try even harder to understand it, and often it can even take me a minute to figure out what the language is, even if it is my native language.
Minute isn't exaggeration. Many times I've been listening to some "foreign language" for a while until it finally clicked, "Oh, that's Slovak, my native language."
If this is in movies I just prefer single-language subtitles.
I would describe it as my brain having to switch languages on-demand rather than just catching on.
But for background this is fine. Today the Hungarian I was hearing from ceiling speakers at work didn't bother me, just background noise, only when it didn't make sense it clicked that it's Slovak, again. Quite different even. But when I unfocused it sounded like the same speech junk.