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During the course of development, a human gradually learns a kind of linguistic code
Learn foreign languages
In the course of its development, the child learns to distinguish sound elements:
It will select sounds that correspond to its linguistic environment and ignore others whose phonetic structures are not known in its linguistic environment: it gradually develops a kind of linguistic code that adapts to the tonal structures of its own language. Every language has its own code, and this can quickly become a barrier to learning a foreign language if it doesn't match the learned language patterns of the mother tongue. Language is first and foremost melody, ie a whole consisting of rhythms and very specific tones. These rhythms and tones form the basic sound substrate on which all other language acquisition (eg at the lexical, syntactic or semantic level) builds.
The aim of the Tomatis® Method is to bring these rhythms and sounds closer to people who want to learn a foreign language.
As the ear becomes accustomed to these strange rhythms, they can easily be heard by the learner
be recorded and imitated. This work also means freeing yourself from the rhythmic and tonal structures of your own language, as they often have an inhibiting effect on the new language to be learned.
The human ear can perceive frequencies in the range of 16 to 16,000 Hertz and numerous rhythms.
Over time, the ear gets used to the frequency range and the special rhythm of the language and adopts the new listening habits. That's why it's always cheaper to learn the foreign language in the respective country, because the constant hearing of the language, a "bath of sound" so to speak, ensures that the ear is trained for the respective frequencies.
Listening therapy can enable the ear to record and store the required frequencies of the respective foreign language. This is done with the "electronic ear" developed by Tomatis, a system of amplifiers, filters and electronic switching, which was modeled on the functions of the human ear.