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Specific languages helping at focusing? (thebrainbin.org)

submitted 23 hours ago by Auster@thebrainbin.org to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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Recently, by accident, I set the subtitles of some anime to Spanish, and to my surprise, for the first time in who knows how long, I could focus fully on an episode. Tested over the days, and indeed it was helping.

After that, it got me wondering why.

Being able to understand some Japanese, the impression I get is that it's in a weird position where it's too straight to the point and too verbose at the same time. Meanwhile, in languages like Portuguese and English, it seems to me as if the speaker needs to walk around ideas a lot to explain them. And almost like they'd be in the other side of the spectrum, languages like Spanish (oddly enough despite being Portuguese's sister language) and the Scandinavian ones feel very straight to the point.

Perhaps then, less information added in helps at not straining one's focus, specially when the person's focus is already on the weaker side?

And going by that, it makes me think, if the person is struggling at focusing at something, despite the medium, maybe changing to a less verbose language (when possible and the person knows the language) could help?

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Could it be something to do with the order of nouns and verbs in the sentence? English is quite different from the order of others.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Hadn't thought about the priority of information which needs to be reserved in mind either. 😯