What is the difference between the word listen and hear?

Answer 1

When you hear something your just literally hearing them speak but not really paying attention.

When your listening you not only hear what they say but are paying attention enough to have a conversation.

Answer 2

When someone is hearing, it means that he is only alert to some sounds that have been made or words that have been spoken. Hearing will on the other hand involving some understanding and psychoanalysis of what is being spoken.

Answer 3

"Listening" and "hearing" are quite often used synonymously; however, their essential meanings are quite different. "Listening" denotes the act of tuning in one's ears, as it were, to something being spoken or otherwise communicated audibly. "Hearing", however, denotes the reception of what is being communicated or, at the very least, engaging in the attempt to receive it.

Answer 4

We say 'Hear' for sounds that come to our ears, maybe by chance, without trying to hear them. For example, 'I heard a strange noise come from the kitchen.'

'Listen' is used to describe intentionally paying attention to sounds. For example, 'Last night, I listened to the radio.'

In summary you can hear something without trying to, but you can only listen to something on purpose. A conversation between friends:

'Did you hear what I said?'

'No, sorry, I wasn't listening.'

Answer 5

hear means just hear it and not take in to mind by leaving it but listening means take in to mind clearlly

Answer 6

" There is none so deaf as those who WILL not hear." . Listening is more important in interpersonal communication.

Answer 7

listening andre navu namma lakya vannu kottu keluvad, hearing andre navu kelas athava sumane kulitta kelatevalla adu.