Paolo Iotti

My new car is quite expensive.

You can’t guess it unless…

It’s a Ferrari Modena 360

It’s a Ford Focus

My new car is quite expensive.

It’s a Ferrari Modena 360

My 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 Taylor was born in France: true or

false?

You can’t answer this question unless…

This is Laurette Taylor. She is a French teacher. She teaches in

Ashbourne, Derbyshire, UK.

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 soundfrequenciesbetween 1,000 And 2,000 Hertz, the Englishcover 4 octaves Between 2,000 Hz and 12,000 Hzand the Slavs, knownfor their gift withlanguages, hear andexpress themselves overeleven octaves.

Most of uscan onlyrecognise thesounds andrhythms ofour mothertongue.

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 arange of soundfrequenciesbetween 1,000 and2,000 Hertz, the Englishcover 4 octavesbetween 2,000 Hz and 12,000 Hzand the Slavs, known for their giftwith languages,hear and expressthemselves overeleven 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 earproviding 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.