Confusing English: LISTEN vs. HEAR (Differenza tra LISTEN e HEAR - Adatto per esami Cambridge)

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This video is about confusing words in English. In this lesson, the difference between the verbs "listen and hear."
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Hello there this is Marc from EnglishMarcNet YouTube. Today we're going to look at two
different verbs but they are similar as you can see from the diagram because they describe
our sense of hearing, obviously using our ears. Okay so the first is to listen
and we use listen plus to as the example I gave you below. I love listening to music.
I love listening to music. The difference here is with hear which hear something or somebody
for example did you hear that noise? Did you hear that noise? Okay so without to the difference
what is the difference? Look at listen in the circle or oval when you are paying attention
to something when you're paying attention to something this is when we use listen we don't
pronounce the t we say listen here instead when this sound comes to our ears so it's natural
okay I gave you also two clues below if you look at listen when we listen we try to hear
okay so they are related obviously but when we listen we try to hear and in the clue four here
is if you can't hear anything you are deaf if you can't hear anything you are deaf okay
so this is the clue I gave you the other thing that I wanted to mention is that listen is an
active action okay active that means that we try to do something so it's a verb it's an active
action here is also a verb but it's a passive action because we just hear is normal for us to
hear something okay so there you have it I hope you have a nice day and I hope you understood my
lesson my mini lesson today okay I see you next time please don't forget to share thank you bye bye
