Listening is about more than hearing as we discover from people who ‘listen for a living’. In the first of three fascinating programmes we meet four individuals who all listen to languages and words. Mark Turin is an anthropologist whose work includes the documentation of oral languages. “It’s very hard to make sense of a language which you’ve never heard before if you don’t see it written down and don’t know where the word breaks are.” explains Mark. More.
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