1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,460 Visita Mikael Books en Facebook para ver más contenido de libros en inglés. 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:10,800 Unit 5. Page 79. Exercise 6A. Listening. 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,940 Okay, folks. Today we're going to talk about hearing. 4 00:00:16,780 --> 00:00:22,340 I want to begin by telling you about an experience I had when I heard my voice on tape 5 00:00:22,340 --> 00:00:26,340 during an anthropology class when I was in college. 6 00:00:26,340 --> 00:00:31,480 The professor recorded our voices and then played them back. 7 00:00:32,180 --> 00:00:36,320 When I heard mine, I didn't think it was my own voice. 8 00:00:36,940 --> 00:00:42,240 I said, that couldn't have been me. There's gotta be some mistake. 9 00:00:42,940 --> 00:00:44,880 I don't sound like that. 10 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:53,100 Now, I'd venture to say that all of you must have had this kind of experience at one time or another. 11 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:56,320 Am I right? Let me see a show of hands. 12 00:00:56,340 --> 00:00:59,320 Uh-huh. Just as I thought. 13 00:01:00,380 --> 00:01:03,920 So, first, let's talk about this question. 14 00:01:04,740 --> 00:01:08,820 Why do we hear our own voices differently than others do? 15 00:01:09,780 --> 00:01:14,240 Based on what we've been studying, you should be able to figure this out. 16 00:01:15,300 --> 00:01:19,760 I think it must be because we're hearing the sound in a different way. 17 00:01:20,180 --> 00:01:23,300 Very good, Allison. You've got the right idea. 18 00:01:23,740 --> 00:01:26,300 Now, does anybody want to explain? 19 00:01:26,340 --> 00:01:27,980 I don't understand on that. Bart? 20 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:34,520 It could be because the sound is traveling through different substances. 21 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:40,820 When somebody speaks, the sound of that person's voice comes to us through the air. 22 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:43,880 But we hear our own voice through our head. 23 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:48,900 Good. Good. Kathy, can you add something? 24 00:01:49,420 --> 00:01:55,160 I agree with Bart when he says we hear our own voices through our own heads. 25 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:56,160 But... 26 00:01:56,340 --> 00:01:58,780 Don't we also hear them through the air? 27 00:01:59,380 --> 00:02:05,040 When our voices come out of our mouths, we can hear them through our ears, can't we? 28 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,980 That's true. And our ears are actually behind our mouths. 29 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:12,840 That has to affect the way we hear our own voices. 30 00:02:13,380 --> 00:02:15,140 Yes, you're both right. 31 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:22,040 You see, when you hear your own voice, you hear partly through your ears externally. 32 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,140 And as you point out, Bart, your ears aren't... 33 00:02:26,140 --> 00:02:29,760 You're not well-placed to receive sounds coming from your mouth. 34 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:37,640 But you also hear through the bone in your head and through the fluid in your inner ear, internally. 35 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,620 Most of the sound that you hear internally comes through liquid. 36 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,300 What about the quality of the recording devices? 37 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:50,380 It could be that they're not as accurate as they're supposed to be. 38 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:56,120 When we hear our voice on a recording, it may not sound the way our voice really sounds. 39 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,040 Another good comment. You're right. 40 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,420 Recordings do distort the sound of our voices. 41 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,240 But there's another issue I wanted to touch on. 42 00:03:06,980 --> 00:03:12,740 A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice, especially when they first hear it. 43 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:15,640 Why do you think this might be the case? 44 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:20,360 I think in a lot of cases, they may lack self-confidence. 45 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,320 They hear their own voice, and it sounds weird. 46 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,120 As bad as they experience it. 47 00:03:26,140 --> 00:03:29,800 I think it must be the opposite. 48 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,500 Some self-confident people may have a high opinion of their own voice, 49 00:03:34,860 --> 00:03:39,120 but when they hear it, it sounds different from what they think they sound like. 50 00:03:39,380 --> 00:03:40,500 So they don't like it. 51 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,580 I don't think this has anything to do with self-confidence. 52 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,920 People want to feel like they know themselves. 53 00:03:48,620 --> 00:03:54,040 When your voice doesn't sound the way you expect it to, it makes you feel uncomfortable. 54 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,040 That might be why... 55 00:03:56,140 --> 00:03:57,240 That might be why you don't like it.