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Learn to read lips No. 35

When you’re trying to lipread, clues from the context are like the autocomplete or autosuggest features on a search engine.

By context, I mean what is happening in the moment; what just happened; what is about to happen; who you are with; and where you are.

How would you ask for context, if it was not available?

Try it out in the short video below:

Check out my free Lipreading Challenge on YouTube to quickly learn key lipreading concepts. Just 90 minutes can improve your skills and help you when the listening environment is challenging.

If you need more support, I am available for one-to-one classes.

Related post: Learn to read lips No. 34

  • Photo credit:  © Alan Fortune

    Sandra Vandenhoff

    Dr. Sandra Vandenhoff is an audiologist with hearing loss, founder of HEARa, Hearing Rehabilitation teacher, and Canadian author, who does not remember saying on her first day of wearing hearing aids: "Mom, I can hear my shoelaces!"

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