Having spent much of my life around people speaking languages I often had trouble understanding, the quoted phenomenon becomes even more obvious. I got better and better at maintaining the rhythm of a conversation, and occasionally even fooling someone into thinking I understood them, simply based on verbal cues, snippets of grammatical cues and pitch (and perhaps other signifiers).<p>And perhaps this is an even better (and much cuter) example of the phenomenon:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_JmA2ClUvUY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_JmA2ClUvUY</a> (talking babies)