Comment by Alex-Aachen

I made the same observation: podcast - no way, music in foreign language - if in background yes. There are some simple mobile-games out there that work well, e.g. clicking some colours for pattern or something, but also nothing with words, written or spoken. Interestingly, driving a car is also not a problem (at least for me), so in the end i blame identical or different mind-regions processing the input for that :-)