u/EngagingWhale_6

One thing I didn’t expect with remote work is how exhausting multilingual meetings can get over time.

Not because people aren’t fluent, but because live conversations are messy. People interrupt each other, audio cuts out, accents stack together, and by the end of the call everyone seems more mentally tired than usual.

Text communication feels manageable most of the time, but live calls feel completely different.

I wonder if other remote teams have noticed this too or if I’m just overthinking it.

In many cases of second language acquisition, learners report significantly better performance in reading than in listening, even when vocabulary knowledge appears comparable.

From a linguistic or psycholinguistic perspective, what factors account for this gap? For example, how much of this can be attributed to phonological processing, speech segmentation, or reduced forms in connected speech?

Are there established models or studies that explain this asymmetry?