Here's something interesting.

[conuly]

While I was busy throwing up, my mom was watching the French channel, some movie about the second wife of the Shah of Iran. She couldn't sleep either. She was coughing, and anyway, I was in her bed. It's just not that big.

If I was looking at the screen and seeing the subtitles, I didn't understand the French. If I was paying attention in between "feeling really sick" and "actually throwing up", so I wasn't looking at the screen, I didn't understand the French. But if I was just lying down on the bed (or the bathroom floor... I was really out of it by about 4am) with my eyes closed, or if I was actively throwing up (or just finishing or about to) and not paying attention at all? I totally understood the French. This isn't just my mind - I'd check the subtitles after, and ask my mom, and I was right.

How odd. I didn't know my passive knowledge of the language was anywhere near that good. It doesn't seem like it should be.

Comments

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm like that with Japanese. A lot of times when I'm watching anime I'll just forget to read the subtitles and won't even notice I stopped until some weird vocabulary comes up.

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm like that with Japanese. A lot of times when I'm watching anime I'll just forget to read the subtitles and won't even notice I stopped until some weird vocabulary comes up.