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Foreign language anxiety, however, is situation-specific and so it can also affect individuals who are not characteristically anxious in other situations. [2] Its main causes are communication-apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation. [2] There is also a psychological component to foreign language anxiety. [3]
[2] [6] Anxiety may be lessened by having privacy in which to make a call, so that the sufferer need not be concerned about the conversation being overheard. [6] Associated avoidance behaviour may include asking others (e.g. relatives at home) to take phone calls and exclusively using answering machines. [1]
You’re going to experience things that turn a simple phone call into a frustrating moment: Calls are going to get dropped, weird echos will occur. Remember to blame the device and not the person.
In fact, a 2024 study shows nearly a quarter of the generation is so hesitant about talking on the phone they never answer calls. A college in the U.K. just recently launched a class aimed at ...
According to the Pew Research Center, 24% of all Latino American adults say they can “only carry on a conversation in Spanish a little or not at all,” and 54% of non-Spanish-speaking Latino ...
Considerable research has been conducted into the causes of glossophobia, with a number of potential causes being suggested. One proposed explanation is that these anxieties are a specific symptom of social anxiety produced by fearfulness related to the fight-or-flight response, which is produced by a perceived threat; [2] this triggers an elevated defense reaction in the sympathetic nervous ...
The primary stress of a Spanish word usually occurs in one of three positions: on the final syllable (oxytone, e.g. señor, ciudad), on the penultimate syllable (paroxytone, e.g. señora, nosotros), or on the antepenultimate syllable (proparoxytone, e.g. teléfono, sábado), but in very rare cases, it can come on the fourth- or even fifth-last ...
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