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Title: Daily Dose of English 181 - Being Half Deaf
Caption: [Music] hey everyone my name is Ben and you&#39;re listening to a daily dose of English this is a short simple podcast that you can listen to every day to improve your English you can find the transcripts for all episodes and more on benl language.com I&#39;m glad you can make it today in this episode we&#39;re going to be talking about being half deaf um although give me a quick second I want to uh I wanted to write down an idea I think I spelled it right yeah um I keep my ideas for the this podcast in a document and just as I started I had an idea that I didn&#39;t want to forget so I put it down and we can get back to the actual episode oh no um all right I skipped one so never mind we&#39;re talking about being half-deaf today um I have to change that because I I have it wrong in my doc now cuz I um skipped one um okay fix there and then being half DEA all right we&#39;re fine a problem fully solved it is perfect and great anyways hi everybody how are you um starting a little bit chaotic today but you know what that&#39;s how we roll real English real talk all right so the episode title might not be very clear you might understand the words and know them but like what do they have to do together so um if you don&#39;t know deaf is when you can&#39;t hear so somebody who is deaf cannot hear with their ears like their ears do not work in some way either fully so they can&#39;t hear anything or they are um partially deaf which is actually more common most uh deaf people have like a small amount of hearing like a couple percent or whatever like they can hear if if it&#39;s very very close or very very loud um and so that&#39;s especially like when you start to lose your hearing as at an older age um basically louder noises still work which is why people have like hearing aids which essentially just amplify the sound and make it louder um so that you can actually hear what&#39;s going on around you and you turn them up or turn them down depending on where you are um and then half-deaf is in my case where I am half deaf I&#39;m not fully deaf I can still hear but I have half of my hearing but I have it in a weird way um a lot when a lot of people think about half deaf they think about like 50% present Hearing in both ears or something like that so where both ears are not very good but they do function I have a sort of a strange deafness where I am 100% fully completely deaf in my right ear and totally normal in my left ear just completely normal um my hearing where when I was last measured when I was pretty pretty young like probably a decade or even 12 years ago was the last time that I had my hearing measured it was better than like most people it was in like in the top 25% of hearing uh it just that my other ear just completely doesn&#39;t work which is the weird thing so it&#39;s like it&#39;s a very strange scenario because I didn&#39;t have like an accident or anything I was sort of just born like this um I did have hearing when I was young and I lost it which I&#39;ll talk about in a second but like the doctor that I would go see when I was young cuz I&#39;ve always had um ear problems obviously um was is like like yeah we don&#39;t really know why exactly he has this he just does and it&#39;s also really not common I know a couple of other people that have something similar but that&#39;s it in like his all of his years of experience he&#39;s only come across a couple of people with like a similar thing it&#39;s a very just strange anomaly that I have specifically my uh there&#39;s a part inside your ear called your cier or CIA depending on your pronunciation I think it&#39;s actually the pronounce coar but it&#39;s such a rare word that doesn&#39;t have a super clear pronunciation that you you can hear it several ways um but your clear like in your ear is sort of what does the hearing part um and the rest of my ear works fine it&#39;s just that part that just doesn&#39;t um there&#39;s actually like basically little tiny hairs that vibrate with the um vibrations from the air and mine just don&#39;t work um and so that&#39;s what what sort of causes my hearing to be zero and not just like bad right I don&#39;t necessarily have a problem with my inner ear or with like other parts of my ear it is just that that one part is just completely shut off um I think an okay way is like if you have a computer that&#39;s just unplugged from the wall like all the parts function it just isn&#39;t getting power there&#39;s no signal to it to like actually work um and it&#39;s just odd because like I don&#39;t actually have like ear problems or any of like balance problems for example so a lot of people who have hearing problems also have balance problems or other problems that come from your inner ear I&#39;ve just never had any of that my balance has always been totally normal um and now now I don&#39;t have any special like ear problems at this point in my life um I do actually have something that is probably related which is ttis in my left ear so ttis is a uh basically a constant ringing or a sound in your ears or or a ear in my Cho my my case um and thankfully mine is not very bad it&#39;s very light um but if I ever don&#39;t have any audio in my ear I can hear a slight um ringing sound it&#39;s it&#39;s honestly it&#39;s not that bad um some people like people with like like ttis from from hearing loss or like hearing damage it can be really really loud and very obnoxious um so it&#39;s a very different kind of tontis it is just technically still the same thing just a very very light form of it which is which is very good cuz I don&#39;t want to have bad citis cuz that would be terrible um and I used to have so before I lost my hearing when I was cuz I I lost it when I was about 8 years old I was in um I think like second grade no what what are you doing 8 years old I don&#39;t know well I was in I was in school and I remember and I would get a lot of ear infections that was a very common thing for me to have when I was a kid even a baby I would have ear infections all the time my ears were just messed up um and I got several different like procedures done because I was just because they were really really painful um I I don&#39;t really remember the pain specifically but I remember not being able to sleep not being able to focus um just being in in horrible pain whenever I had an ear infection which was every couple months right I probably got five or six per year and um and I had those pretty much up until I was eight and then I had a really bad ear infection I lost all of my hearing pretty much for a few days um where just it was so bad there was so much buildup of pressure and stuff in my ears that um it it was just it was terrible I couldn&#39;t hear I it was in a lot of pain and then then it started to go down die die away and my hearing and my right ear just never came back it was completely gone never couldn&#39;t hear anything and my left ear was came back normally right it was just a bad ear infection and came back and then pretty much since then I haven&#39;t had any ear problems I have had a couple of times where I got ear infections or an ear infection um which was kind of scary because I was worried that I was going to it was G to happen in my other ear as well but it was just like a an ear infection that I got I think twice only or maybe it was it once I don&#39;t remember if it was once or twice but it was not very many times in all of those years since then so uh it&#39;s it hopefully it was just my right ear just with things to make my uh whole ear system bad because your ear nose and throat are very connected um I don&#39;t know if you&#39;ve ever had if you&#39;ve ever had problems with any of those you might have gone to see a specialist in all three right so in in the US they&#39;re called ent&#39;s so ear nose and throat doctors um and so I&#39;d go see an ENT pretty often because I had those problems and then now they&#39;re really gone like I can&#39;t hear but it&#39;s also not the worst thing in the world because I can hear in my other ear um the things that I lose out on are um like dual audio directional hearing and uh like people may assume that you can hear right it&#39;s the it&#39;s normal to hear and since I am a hearing person it doesn&#39;t look like I don&#39;t I don&#39;t seem deaf right and so it can it can cause some like misunderstandings there so that first thing I said which was um what was it whatever I&#39;ll start with directional hearing I don&#39;t know what order I said them in but directional hearing is when you can close your eyes or and just like and hear a sound and be able to like point to it right so if you if you spin around in a circle and you close your eyes and your friend like claps or says a noise or something in in the room you can probably point to them right you can um hear where they are using your two ears and your brain can figure out more or less where something is coming from right so that&#39;s directional hearing I don&#39;t have that I only have one ear right so this this happens with people with one ear or one U one good eye or anything like that where we actually use our brains use two slightly different signals to figure figure out where something is coming from or for how far away something is um so depth perception right my mom has a has different Vision in her two eyes and so her depth perception isn&#39;t great um it&#39;s still functional but like um if you only had one eye your depth reception is way worse because and that&#39;s how far away something is just because your eye your brain uses slightly different signals to figure it out same thing with hearing so I can&#39;t point to you um unless you&#39;re like basically directly to my left um I have a slight range of of of being able to tack to where something is on my left but my directional Hearing in general is just bad I just can&#39;t do anything with that um the other thing is I already forgot shoot oh um like dual audio so in on computers or um any any digital audio signal there&#39;s usually a left and right output so um whenever you record something there is left and right output I I I don&#39;t know how to explain this like you you stereo audio that&#39;s the term for it okay stereo audio I can&#39;t hear so a lot of songs for example will actually play with stereo audio uh the song that comes to mind is Bohemian rap city where there are different parts that play in the right ear and the left ear or the right speaker and the left speaker I cannot hear the right side um and so I have never been able been able to hear like stereo music or stereo um whatever really which is actually a little bit annoying it&#39;s quite annoying it&#39;s it&#39;s probably the worst part of all this it&#39;s very obnoxious because um on a lot of programs it is like Spotify for example you can&#39;t turn on mono audio which is have having everything be the same because you have to like go into the device settings and things and it doesn&#39;t always work because it&#39;s a fairly Niche thing a lot of people like having the stereo audio cuz it&#39;s it&#39;s nice it adds depth and things but for those of us who cannot hear stereo audio it&#39;s a big pain um actually relatively recently my headphones broke and I had or my left headphone broke so I had to use my right headphone for my left ear um and I was recording this podcast and I learned that the intro and outro music have sound different on the two ears I didn&#39;t know that I was whenever I played the Audio I would just listen to the music and it would sound normal to me and then I started listening to the other one I&#39;m like oh that&#39;s different so there&#39;s a difference in the music that I didn&#39;t know existed um I also had an issue where I used to record in stereo audio but I have a mono audio microphone and it was only putting the audio into the left signal um and I thought that was fine cuz whenever I listened to the videos it sounded good but somebody uh commented at one point and he&#39;s like okay you can&#39;t hear anything in this video it&#39;s completely silent and I go what do you mean it&#39;s silent I listen to it it&#39;s not silent turns out that person the only their right speaker was working so they heard nothing but only my left speaker my left ear worked so I heard everything and so there&#39;s there can be these weird like audio issues that come up when you don&#39;t really realize or you can&#39;t really hear in Stereo which is uh a pain I really wish that I could just like force my entire computer entire phone to be on only mono audio but I haven&#39;t figured out how there&#39;s even a a a thread I actually searched this a while ago there&#39;s this like four-year-old thread on on spotify&#39;s uh Community forums of like hundreds of people begging for them to make mono audio like a thing that you can just set on your profile because you can&#39;t and it&#39;s so and I really really wish that you could because there are there&#39;s a lot of people like us out there that can only hear in one ear or just want mono audio um and it&#39;s not a difficult thing to do in software so yeah and then the final thing I want to mention is that uh people will expect you to be able to hear out of your both ears if you because that&#39;s what most people can do and so very frequently people will be on my right side talking to me and I just can&#39;t hear anything I just won&#39;t be able to hear what they&#39;re saying or I don&#39;t even know they&#39;re talking to me and that can be pretty like frustrating right because you I can I can tell that they&#39;re talking but I don&#39;t know what they&#39;re saying or um they&#39;re trying to get my attention and I just don&#39;t know right some people have gotten frustrated with me because they&#39;re like why aren&#39;t you listening to me and I go I don&#39;t know you&#39;re talking I didn&#39;t had no idea right um and actually that becomes a problem as well in in noisy environments I already don&#39;t love noisy place places just in general but then add in the fact that it makes it&#39;s a lot harder to isolate people speaking if you don&#39;t have two ears right that goes back to the directional hearing thing is where all of the um stimulus in of of sound is going into my one receptor and so somebody who&#39;s sitting in front of me I have a lot harder time focusing on their their talking in a loud environment which adds to the difficulty of being in like a bar for example I really don&#39;t like um big bar or noisy places um because it&#39;s just it&#39;s so hard to hear and focus several times I&#39;ve gone out with people and I will basically just be sitting there enjoying my drink and and just like looking around cuz I can&#39;t really be a part of the conversation unless somebody leans very close to me and speaks very loudly because I just can&#39;t pick up what people are saying from across the table um and it&#39;s just it&#39;s yeah it&#39;s not that much fun um however I&#39;ve gotten used to it at this point I don&#39;t really want or need my hearing back in my right ear because I I&#39;ve lived with it for so long that it&#39;s just a part of my life I don&#39;t think about it at all I um can block out sounds easily I uh people that who live with me or know me well get used to the fact that I can only hear in one ear um and so there&#39;s a bunch of things that like I figured out and I have no need to fix them right it&#39;s not really a problem anymore it&#39;s just different um and like like for example I don&#39;t really want to be able to hear out of both ears when I&#39;m sleeping I can sleep when there&#39;s noise because I just put my good ear against the pillow and okay goodbye noise easy peasy U but a lot of people get woken up by noise because they can hear it with their exposed ear um so yeah anyways this episode is very long because I&#39;m just keep I think I think these episodes are getting longer um on average but I guess that&#39;s fine hopefully you don&#39;t mind but um it&#39;s kind of uh making the um short simple podcast thing a little bit not as true anyways um I hope that you enjoyed I thank you very much for listening and I hope that you learn something new maybe if you have something interesting and unique about your body or your hearing I&#39;d be curious to know down in the comments below see you tomorrow bye
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