Last weekend we did a little multicultural evening with some spanish, portuguese and french people we met through our 8th portuguese housemate and tryed some spirituous mixed drinks together 
it was quiet interessting to speak english for hours in my free time. Sure i had to speak many times before but that was mostly some short smalltalk. But i have to say i managed it quiet well and i experienced that „2beer“ astonishingly makes it easier to speak a foreign language 
seems its easier when you not always think about every word and just talk
exhausting friday and it took two days of resting this time