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Re:Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish boo... by angelzen on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @02:07PM (#28447862)
Hypothesis: The Italian guy might have a better chance of picking up Spanish if the Spaniards were to speak a bit slower than usual :) Especially at the fuzzy mutual intelligibility boundary, a lower communication speed helps.

Italian syllables/minute: 405

Spanish syllables/minute: 526

https://irisreading.com/average-reading-speed-in-various-lan...

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Re:Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish boo... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:29PM (#28449522)
Wouldn't speaking speed be a more relevant metric than reading speed?
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Re:Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish boo... by angelzen on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:38PM (#28449642)
Correct. They correlate though. In practice going half speed would probably be better, giving the brain time to recognize the unusual dialect.

Italian: 6.99 syllables per second

Spanish: 7.82 syllables per second

https://thelanguagenerds.com/2019/list-of-the-fastest-spoken...

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