Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 307. The title of today's lesson is \"Don't Say Hear a Language When You Mean Understand. \" Yeah. A lot of times I'll often get students they'll actually say this. Or you know, it could be any language, but let's , let's use the example here. So again with the X this is wrong. So if somebody says do you hear Chinese ? Of course what they mean is do you understand Chinese ? With the check or do you speak Chinese ? If you say do you hear Chinese, I mean of course I really unless you're deaf, you definitely hear the language. That does not mean that you understand it. You could hear the words being spoken, but really what they mean to say is do you understand Chinese ? Can you speak Chinese ? Are you fluent in Chinese ? There's a lot of ways they could say that but sometimes they'll say hear. And hear really doesn't make any sense here. Like I said unless you're deaf, you definitely hear it . But hearing does not equal understanding. So let's go on. Let's look at the second one. And somebody might say, I can hear Russian. Now of course that would be a mistake. I can understand Russian. I can speak Russian, or I am fluent in Russian. There's a lot of things that they can say. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye bye.
A2 US chinese hear russian understand language deaf Tutor Nick P Lesson (307) Don't Say Hear a Language When You Mean Understand 18 0 anitawu12 posted on 2019/05/13 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary