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mdemare on April 18, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: What music do you listen to while programming?

Strangely, even though I'm nearly fluent in English, I can tune out English lyrics effortlessly, but not Dutch ones (my native language).

Hexstream on April 18, 2008 [–]

Similarly for me, I can understand spoken english almost perfectly easily but I'm having a hard time understanding even a couple words from an english song even if I try hard. (native language: french)

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