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This is six minute english from bbc learning english
I'm nail and i'm georgie nail
I'm going to play you two sound recordings
And i want you to tell me how you feel
When you hear them
Okay
First this and now this
Oh well
That first clip made be feel really relaxed um
But the second well always horrible fft t quite resss out out tually
Oh well well
This little experiexperiment shows how much we be affected by nonoise around us
And that's a problem
If you're one of the four bilpeople around the
The more relaxing places
Yes
Whether it's the rattle tratrain tracks
Uonking car horns or the raar of airplanes
Overhead modern cities are full of noise
And this can have serious effects the world health organisations reports
That horrible altwo in a half billion people will experience hearing loss and exposure to aloud noise has been linked to stress and anxiety
In this episode
We'll be hearing about the to make our cicities quieter more relaxing places
Using some useful new words
Anxiety
And remember you'll find all the vocabulary along with a quiz and work sheet on our website
Bbc learning english dock com
But now i have a question for angeororce ound is measured in units called decissibels
But how many decicibels would it be
If i whispered a whisper is speaking like this is it a three decicibels
B thirteen decicibels
Or see thirty decicibels
Othat's really hard
I'll go for be thirteen decicibels
Well we'll find out the answer at the end of the program
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Let's start in one of the noisious cities
In the world mumbai in india
Where daytime noise levels regularly hit eighty decibels
Which is over twenty decibels higher than well health organization recommendations listen to mumbai native chavvi such death share her experiences of living in this noisy city
Because twelc world service program people fixing the world
I mean india in general is just really loud
We are allowed people we just loud
We
We orate loud
We celebrate loud
We watch movies loud
When people asme me what mimiss liliving abroad
I tell them
It's the quiet
Because after twelve years of living in the us and europe
When i got back
I realized
I couldn't handle anymore i've got ten
Used llower levels of noise
Chavez says
Indians talk loud
Celebrate loud and dress loud to dress loud means to wear clouds with bright clouds and large bold patterns
When chavetime return to india after living overseas
She said she couldn't handle the noise
If you can't handle something
You find it difficult to deal or cope with so what can be done to tackle noise in cities like mumbai one interesting approach involves using sound itself to make things feel quieter
Sounscaping is the idea of adding certain sounds to busy y sounounso sound sthe of more relaxing sound out his chilssounandssounlthe the in ocedano ssssanin montreal al canada
Charles was inspirred to recate ate ocecean sounds
He heard on holiday in the magdlan islands in his city park
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He tells reports in atasha fanandeo
That these sounds included ocean waves and some unusual sounding sound
The sound and the magdine sounding sound
The sound into the sounds
Firmly the sound makes some quicky sounds
So that sound ound that kind
Kind funnny spal the sound make small surrounded by busy roads
Shw and teteam set up up en a massive sound insulation in the form speakers
Plplanted flower beds
So the the installation was really to make dispark a little quiet
By adding some quiet noises
So it's counter ter intuitive
But you can make a park less noisy
By adding some common sounds
The sand on the magdlin islands is squeeky
It makes a high pitch sound called a squeek
When stepped on charles played recordings of this sand ocean waves and other relaxing sounds through speakers hidden in the park
He created an art installation
A work of art designed to give people an interactive experience
Now adding more relaxing sounds
Chard's 's installation actually made the park feel quieter
It's an example of something
That's counterintuitive meaning
It happens differently from how you would expect what a great idea
Well similar sounscapes are now helping city dwellers relax in other cities ties including tokyo and barcelona
Now knew you ask me a quesound about a unquiet sound a whisper
So are going to reveal the correct answer
I asked you how loud a whisper is yes
An issad thirteen
Dasabea well thirteen is an unlucky number
And you wrong ong ah it was actually thirty
Okay
Let's recap the vote cabulary
We've learned starting with desbel the unit for measuring sound
Someone who dresses loud
Likes to wear clothes with bright colors and boll designs
If you can't handle something
You find it difficult to deal with an art installation is an artwwork design to create an interactive experience in a certain space
The adjective squeeky describes things
Which make a high pitched sound like a mouse squeesqueeke
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And finally
If you call something counterintuitive
You mean it happens differently from how you would expect once again are six minutes are up
But if you'd like to hear more about this and many other trending topics
You'll find episodes and learning activities on our website bbc learning english dot com
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Soon
But for now
It's goodbye
Goodbye
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