Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from the Comedia in Bath.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anna Chisinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go.
Starting with you, James Harkin.
Okay, my fact this week is that it's easier to speak Dutch if you're drunk.
As if you're a non-native speaker.
Yeah, if you're Dutch, you tend not to have too many problems in general if you're Dutch.
And you can't be absolutely hammered, you have to be very slightly one pint kind of drunk.
And this is a study that's been done recently.
They got 15 native German speakers to talk to a Dutch person in Dutch and then they recorded it and they asked some Dutch people afterwards,
how did they do?
And the drunk people did a little bit better.
But unfortunately I did read on Reddit,
someone posted on Reddit that Dutch is basically like a German got drunk and can't speak properly anymore.
There's a lot of slurred sounds in this.
I didn't know you speak and not even drink.
Does anyone here speak Dutch?
Wow.
Have another drink and then see.