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| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4945 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 1 of 12 16 December 2011 at 3:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been recently having problems where I live recently as it seems masses of new
neighbours have moved into the area and they are rather noisy (not to mention their children too). I've mentioned it to them when I have seen them, but they are the type you don't want to associate with, nor annoy at the same time due to them being quite rough looking. So I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem, namely noise, whilst learning their languages and how did you cope, or work around it? As you probably know, its awful having background noise when your really trying to focus on something. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tibbles Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5177 days ago 245 posts - 422 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean | Message 2 of 12 16 December 2011 at 3:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Consider purchasing some triple-flange ear phones. They will block out about 99.9% of the noise. Plus you can play music or a neutral sound effect through them during your studies to help with concentration.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6583 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3 of 12 16 December 2011 at 3:41am | IP Logged | ||
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yeah or ear-phone like earplugs. though if possible i prefer music or TV.
and to anyone else having a similar problem: if it's a family member, the best strategy might be "if you can't beat them, join them" :) if there's a movie on TV in the same room where i am, i can ignore it. if i'm in my own room and only hear vague sounds/screams/shooting, that's far more distracting somehow. Edited by Serpent on 16 December 2011 at 3:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5953 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 12 16 December 2011 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm easily distracted by noise when trying to read or concentrate. A neutral/white noise generator can help. There's one online here:
Simply Noise I like the "pink" noise best. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6689 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 12 16 December 2011 at 10:32am | IP Logged | ||
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I have an old radio which I have put between stations so that it just gives off a white noise hiss. If I use earplugs without white noise my hearing somehow gets more sensitive so that I still can hear the external noise. But with white noise the annoying sounds are partly drowned in the hiss and filtered out together with it. New radios are no good because they remove the hiss.
But most of the time I listen to TV or to my computer or my stereo rack while working. As long as I have chosen the repertoire myself it keeps me from getting impatient and restless. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5833 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 12 16 December 2011 at 11:38am | IP Logged | ||
I have heard about these coloured noises to use in the background for the first time in my life, so I read the Wikipedia page about "white noise". I like the brown noise best because it is a very natural noise which fits in well. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 16 December 2011 at 11:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4874 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 7 of 12 16 December 2011 at 12:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm wondering if you've moved in near me! I have noisy neighbours too - grrr!! You could try posting an annonymous note through their door asking them to keep the noise down.
Thanks for the link Meramarina, I'll have to take a look as I can handle necessary noise e.g. cars driving by, even roadworks are ok; but give me someone inconsiderate with their volume buttons etc and it gets to me so I can't concentrate even more. If I'm in the same room I can't concentrate either because it's too distracting, even with ear plugs in or listening to music through earphones (that in turn becomes distracting). Might have to give colour noise through headphones a try so I can also spend more time with the other half *and* be able to study more too :o) Thanks!! :o) Edited by WentworthsGal on 16 December 2011 at 12:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5367 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 8 of 12 16 December 2011 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Noise-cancelling headphones work really well. Give them a try!
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