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.