Transcript Diapositiva 1

Paolo Iotti
 My
new car is quite expensive.

It’s a Ferrari Modena 360

It’s a Ford Focus
 You
can’t guess it unless…
 My

It’s a Ferrari Modena 360
 My

new car is quite expensive.
new car is quite expensive.
It’s a Ford Focus
 You
can’t guess it unless YOU HEAR IT!
 This
is Laurette Taylor.
She is a French teacher.
She teaches in Ashbourne,
Derbyshire, UK.
 Laurette
 You
Taylor was born in France:
true or false?
can’t answer this question unless…
 This
is Laurette Taylor.
She is a French teacher.
She teaches in Ashbourne,
Derbyshire, UK.
 Laurette
Taylor was born in France:
true or false?
 What’s
your name?
My name’s Val.
 Open
your books!
Close your books!
 Good
morning!
What are you doing?
 Thank
you very much.
 EXAMPLE
SENTENCE: "I'm not going".
 "I‘m not going": meaning [1] = Not "ME", but
perhaps "YOU", "SHE" or "HE".
 "I'm not going": meaning [2] = I reFUSE to go.
 "I'm not going": meaning [3] = I'm not
GOing... I'm COMing BACK!
 Janet's
going to Brighton tomorrow
afternoon to buy herself a pair of red,
leather shoes
"You can only speak a foreign
language well if you can hear it
properly.
That is, if you can distinguish the
sounds, rhythms and music of the
language."
Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis

The human ear is designed to pick up a
wide range of sound frequencies and
perceive an infinite number of rhythms, but
in practice, most of us can only recognise
the sounds and rhythms of our mother
tongue. In every part of the world, in every
nation, people hear in different ways and
this affects our ability to learn each other’s
languages.
The French use
a range of sound
frequencies
between 1,000
And 2,000 Hertz,
the English
cover 4 octaves
Between 2,000 Hz
and 12,000 Hz
and the Slavs,
known
for their gift with
languages,
hear and
express
themselves over
eleven octaves.
Most of us
can only
recognise
the
sounds and
rhythms
of
our mother
tongue.
In every part
of the world,
in every
nation,
people hear in
different ways
and this affects
our ability to
learn each other’s
languages
The French use a
range of sound
frequencies
between 1,000 and
2,000 Hertz,
the English
cover 4 octaves
between 2,000 Hz
and 12,000 Hz
and the Slavs,
known for their gift
with languages,
hear and express
themselves over
eleven octaves.
Constant exposure to an
environment pour in high
frequencies makes the muscles
in the middle ear become “out
of condition”, so that high
frequencies cannot enter into
the inner ear.
 We can restore our hearing (and
thus our voice), by (re)training
the muscles on the inner ear.
 But how can we train the
smallest muscles in our body?

 When
our ears cannot hear certain
sounds, our voice does not contain them
either
 If we modify the hearing, the voice
changes immediately
 It is possible to improve the usage of our
auditory channel:


(re)training the muscles on the inner ear
providing high frequencies
A
singing voice provides a high charge of acute
frequencies, between 800 and 10,000 Hz (12.000
Hz), perceived by the singer by means of
transmission via bone vibrations.
 Singing
is a primordial source of cortical stimuli.