This explained why Hermione kept hearing the sixth- and seventh-year students having bafflingly multilingual conversations in which they would, apparently, mix languages like soup ingredients without really noticing, although it did not entirely help her - or any of the other students below fourth year, in fact - understand anything they were saying. She enjoyed Talking Days, though, difficult as they were; cultural differences were a subject she was genuinely fascinated by, and she always felt like she was learning new things. As a bonus, watching Jarek and Natalia try to have arguments in a language neither of them knew - such as Italian - was invariably hilarious.