All of know that lowering the affective filter and being a risk-taking language learner can improve the ability to communicate in the new language. Now, researchers identified another way of achieving this result. Read more at https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-dutch-couragealcohol-foreign-language-skills.html. Like I stated before, there are other ways to achieve this result and they do not involve any consumption of beverages.