{"id":24976,"date":"2025-09-30T20:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=24976"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:52:11","slug":"does-a-bit-of-booze-really-make-us-better-at-languages-podcast-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=24976","title":{"rendered":"Does a bit of booze really make us better at languages? \u2013 podcast | Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ig Nobel prizes were awarded recently \u2013 for science that makes you laugh and then think \u2013 and the peace prize was given to a cheeky study testing the link between alcohol and language proficiency. Does a drink really help us to converse more convincingly in another tongue, or does it just give us inflated confidence? To find out, Madeleine Finlay speaks to a member of the winning team, Dr Fritz Renner, a researcher in clinical psychology and psychotherapy at the University of Freiburg in Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ig Nobel prizes were awarded recently \u2013 for science that makes you laugh and then think \u2013 and the peace prize was given to a cheeky study testing the link between alcohol and language proficiency. Does a drink really help us to converse more convincingly in another tongue, or does it just give us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[3897,9547,10298,515,516],"class_list":{"0":"post-24976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-bit","9":"tag-booze","10":"tag-languages","11":"tag-podcast","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}