(August 11, 2014 at 12:11 pm)whateverist Wrote: I have no ear for language. I often just can't hear the difference between a pronunciation someone is correcting for me and what it is they're saying. (This is a cause of much consternation for me when trying to pronounce people's names correctly.)
I have something of an ear for mimicry, but when I took Spanish in high school (the last time I "studied" a language) we watched a video with the aim of distinguishing between South American Spanish accents - and they all sounded exactly the same to me. Almost everyone else could distinguished a couple from each other, all I heard was Spanish.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.