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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.
Mirna Yamileth Valladares Flores had received little to no communication from her 13-year-old daughter’s Norfolk middle school, and was frustrated. Valladares, who was a teacher in her native ...
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 ...
This article contains tables of U.S. cities and metropolitan areas with information about the population aged 5 and over that speaks Spanish at home. The tables do not reflect the total number or percentage of people who know Spanish.
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Spanish is usually considered a syllable-timed language. Even so, stressed syllables may be up to 50% longer in duration than non-stressed syllables. [93] [94] [95] Although pitch, duration, and loudness contribute to the perception of stress, [96] pitch is the most important in isolation. [97]