852. How does it feel to be blind? (Article & Vocabulary)
How does it feel to have a visual impairment? How do blind people navigate the world? How do other people treat you, if you are blind? And, how do we talk about blindness and other forms of disability in English? This episode is inspired by a listener called Hafid, who contacted me recently. I talk about the subject of blindness and disability in general, read an article written by a partially sighted person, and explain a list of words and phrases we should use when describing different forms of disability. Also includes various medical vocabulary such as the different parts of the eye and other related topics.
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Hi Luke I'm in Spain 🇪🇸 I'm a baker, I make custom cakes, and I wanted to share with you and your followers that I made a cake a few years ago for a blind woman, the cake was for her husband and she described me what she wanted, it was a viking ship. So I decided to put a lot of textures, made the water liquid with jelly, put chocolate textured like wood, I put so many details, the cake was really amazing and she was exited about it and touched everything, she told me that she loved it and that she could feel the details and 'see' the ship. I felt so grateful that she enjoyed so much that cake.
Here is a blind woman from Finland. I am 60 years old. I have been listening to your bodcasts for about 3 years. You have become like a friend. I lived with you when a baby came into your family and it's like I knew your brother and your parents too. I often still listen at night when I go to bed, and I often fall asleep and wake up and hear it again when you are talking to your father, mother or brother. When I'm sleepy, I think "oh, Luke's dad has come over" 🤣🤣🤣. Thank you! Your humour and teaching are great!!!
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Your post is so touching - I hope to read more from you with Luke's videos. Lg from Lower Austria to Finland
Great! Luke's episodes are really great and they are emotionally healing in some ways. Just listening to his audio podcast episodes can make wonders to your English.😊
I am disabled person, I can't do anything by myself really I'm in wheelchair. I use the pc with my eyes.
Giving UP means the death, and we are realy loving the life! Don't give UP my dear
I’ m gonna pray for you. Be strong!! 🙏🏻
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Hallo ! I am from Austria and I am learning English ! Great Channel !
Hi Luke! I'm Şüheda from Turkiye i love your podcast, they helping me all day. Thanks for this
Hello Luke,i am from Brazil , and you have been my teacher for 3 month`s /Thank You
Hello, Luke! I'm a blind person, and I use accessibility software on my computer and phone. They had flexible enough tools, but I hope that AI will be able to help people like me in the future, and it will offer a wider range of aids than it does now. I work as a massage therapist in a medical center. I live in a suburb of Moscow and go to work three days a week by train. I've already become accustomed to my route and don't feel any discomfort. Along the way, I listen to your podcasts. Thank you for the entertaining pastime. :)) One thing I'm sad about is that it was impossible when I was at school. There were too few resources to learn English, and all of them were so expensive that I couldn't afford them. But despite this, at almost forty, I am trying to learn. It is more difficult to remember new words, and it will get harder as I'm getting older, but I hope it helps my brain not stagnate. Thank you for your great work. You have an excellent sense of humor. I'v started listening your podcasts from the beginning. I recently discovered them, so I have many interesting episodes ahead of me!
You're young to learn new words! Our brain needs a massage of new knowledge to be in good shape) You know it very well!
Great channel and special episode. Thank you, our dear teacher, your blind student🤓👍
Thank you for this sensitive episode. When I read it's title, I remembered a true story about a person's unhappiness in being able to see after eye surgery. He went to the park again and instead of trying to see the statue he liked, which required a serious effort to learn colors, shapes and seeing in 3 dimensions, he closed his eyes and touched the statue as before, and then calmed down. That scene changed my perspective on disabled people. They have their own style and taste in living their life. They're not disabled, they're just different. We must be more sensitive and not hinder them in order to create an environment that is easy for them to live in and is not dangerous. I must mention the name of the author of the story (and many other great stories), Oliver Sacks, a neuroscientist.
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The way you teaching language is the best to me…
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Thank you Luke, I'm refresing my English and I discover you 🙂. I enjoy listen your podcast with a coffee, it's a great time!
Always thank god for everything
What a wonderful way to start this Wednesday… a new episode in Luke’s English Podcast to keep me company through the day. The title sounds very promising!!! 🙌🏼✨🙏🏻 I’m diving in…
Thank you for sharing Luke❤
Good morning dear friend 😊....lot of medical words....it's helped me a lot..,thank u so much.....❤....
I don’t know why but going blind terrifies me, like I can imagine myself being deaf but not blind. Kudos to people with disabilities who keep joy of life and remind me to be grateful for what I have 🙌🏻 Thank you Luke for another entertaining episode, keep it up!
You're right. A sense of humour is always helpful and, of course, having a few friends around who understand you. Of course, they can't feel what it's like to be blind or deaf because only someone who is sick understands someone else with the same illness. i know something about it because I suffer from a rare deseas cervucal dystonia, and only another person with the same movement disorder understands why I'm afraid of going to the hairdresser.
Joy in life is an important point when life is challenging.
I am from Oman, you have a fairly large audience in my country. you are an excellent teacher of the ENGLISG LANGUAGE. Thanks
Thanks for the episode it was amazing !
Goodmorning from Italy. THANKS for your podcast. Keeps me company throughout the day.
Hard topic..but really necessary. The other day I was in a jazz cafe. There was a blind young pianist. His playing was great and seemed effortless. A young boy. He was born blind. He played smiling. I was trying to hold back my tears listening to his great playing. Amazing person.. Thank you, Luke, for the video.
Дорогой Лука. Спасибо. Очень трогательно. Постараюсь слушать Вас почаще. Познавательные и полезные передачи. Дай Бог Вам и всем близким здоровья и благополучия
Thankfully, no one will read this comment written in the language of terrorists.
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This is my first video of this channel and I am so astonished.
Thank you very much for your valuable podcasts, they are very informative and also you always trying to explain words which can be not familiar for not native speakers,. I an watching you from Kazakhstan. It's very useful resourae especially for people with visual problems.
"Being visually impaired, I've encountered various challenges, and your video shed light on some incredible insights. The way you assisted the individuals in the video truly resonated with me. Often, it's misunderstood that individuals like me are angry, but the truth is, we strive to create a comfortable environment for ourselves and work hard to comprehend everything around us. 😂 As a person with visual impairments since 2015, during my younger years, seeking help was a daunting task, especially not knowing whom to approach. I appreciate videos like these as they offer valuable insights into the experiences of those with visual impairments. Thank you for sharing such meaningful content."
Another very good podcast that I enjoyed listening to to the end. Thanks for that, Luke. Inclusion of disabled people is necessary and should be completely normal. Unfortunately, I don't think we're there yet. 👍
Thank you!
Great job!!! You're so sensible and still, your words, the way you get your thoughts through to your audience, are so caring. Thank you and thank Hafid who took the time to tell you about his experience and let you share it with us❤❤❤
I'm a bit ashamed when it comes to write in English, and much more if I have to do it with someone who knows so well this lenguaje. I Just wanted to tell you that it's a great pleasure listening not only someone who is so good at English, but also make it telling us interesting things that make me enjoy to much, both, listening English and the topics you tell us. Thank you very much, you are the Best english tachar I have ever knew❤❤❤❤❤
You're welcome.
watching from Kertajaya villages sumur district Banten. Nice
someone looks like he is angry, but as a matter of fact, he is only trying to see what is in front of him. I feel like I can relate to that even though my eyes are ok.
Thanks a million, Luke! Amazing article presentation. Contributed immensely to our Language acquisition.🇧🇷🙋👏🏆🤩
Nice learning experience in disability persons episode 🎉😊
Thank you, Luke, for such an informative and eye-opening podcast! It is really touching. I wish you a long and healthy life! Keep it up!
I think like you - thanks for your words and to Luke and his podcast!
Thank you luke, you're great
Am I disabled, because I always live with extemly pain of bones? I don't know. But I think blind people are the most disabled persons. I look up to them. They have a good brain and can hear well in the rule. Brail seems not so easy. I read a book about Brail, many years ago. Thanks for your potcast.
Luke , you are such a cool guy!) I’m really into your podcasts ! Keep it up! Your lessons are so fascinating,so unusual !!! I do like it!😊
Great news! Amber&Paul will be soon on the podcast🔥 Very insightful today`s topic. What I`ve always thought and got confirmed today is that people with disabilities don`t want to be treated with pity and extra fluff, they`ll appreciate just the right amount of attention when they really need it.
Thank you.
A lot of useful vocabulary.
Thanks Luke. It was a great and thoroughly treated topic. The article really moved me, and even though I don't have any vision problems, it feels very close to me.
This was an extraordinary episode!! It teaches me a lot about blind people. I admire all them because their strength . I really appreciate this episode, thank you so much!!❤
Luke, you have a beautiful heart ❤️ Thank you for making this kind of episode👍
thank you
I rarely write comments, I don’t even know why. May be because so many people do this. And you don’t usually think that it’s important. But today, with the beginning of Luke’s podcast I understood that it is. It is important for creators to get feedback and get some shared energy back. Luke, you are my favourite podcast maker. And thanks to your parents and to yourself for you, being so intelligent, nice person with the great sense of humour. Listening to you I always think that all the differences btw nations and all the limits are inside of our own minds and in the heads of some politicians)) The main things are understandable for everyone and stay the same throughout the ages.
Excellent comment!! I think like you!
My parents both went blind because they had diabetes so I know exactly what it is like to live with blind people it is very tragically sad especially when they don't take the opportunity to deal with their illness.
Thank you for this great episode. I‘m impressed of your sensivity and respectful way to talk about things people avoid. I‘m in a wheelchair, trying to get well in English, knowing the hurtful words in German. In English is hard to hear between the lines. You helped me a lot. Thank you very much for that.
Thanks so much for your help 🎉🎉
Awesome job thank you so much you are not just a teacher also you are jentl and sensible respected man I enjoyed and learned more than just English words ❤
I was so touching listening to this episode you talking about blind.
Luke, hello! Thanks to you for your wonderful podcasts! I’ve been listening/watching them for a while now. And I can tell it has a significant impact on me! I love your thoughts and the way you tell the stories! Last thing but not least, I have gotten really better at English! Wish you all the best! Kristina from Russia, Sakhalin island ❤️
Thank you Luke, you are so kind and consider all of your interlocutors and teach us new matter by any plausible excuse.❤
Thank you so much for this very instructive, interesting and human podcast Luke ! It's not so easy to deal with subjects like this, and you did it in a great way, as always 👍✨🙏🏼
Wow… Thank you , it’s so good topic.
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الحمد لك يا الله على نعمة الاسلام الحمدلك على نعمة البصر والحمد لك على جميع النعم التي لا تعد ولا تحصى ❤🤲🤲
Thanks for this really interesting episode. To be honest, I really didn't realize before that "blind" could mean different things. I thought that all blind people can't see anything. Other aspects of this episode were also very interesting.
I fall into a Dogmatic style of thinking sometimes. Interesting video.🤔
squinting was demonstrated perfectly👌
Hey Luke. Thanks for your work. I've just come up with a joke, I am sure someone already invented it, but I can't resist to share it. Here it is. I used to live in a town called Wood and I used to listen to the local radio. So, my every morning was starting from "Morning Wood"
Hi Luke, what wonderful item. I work in a company for blind person and for other disability person like me. I have deafness in 50% to 60%. I had the experience to interact with a blind worker who mend or fix your computer problemas un software. We interact online...I don't know how it could do it. There must be forms that they understand you, the new technology is surprise. Have a nivel day . Thanks for your podcast. I found a mistake when I sent this mensaje. He wasn't a blind person, he was a deaf person. An interaction between two deaf persons
I love your podcasts. ❤
I love it because it is good to know how can I treat people with disabilities in real life in my second language, That's why I have an alarm to the new podcast is a fascinating new theme and vocabulary inclusion Iam Fab with this podcasts ❤
Hi Luke🌻 I have been listening your podcasts for about one year on Spotify, then a couple of days ago I saw your channel on KZhead by chance and I more liked listening and watching from here. Anyways, this episode is absolutely enlightening one, thank you for that. Even though the main topic is about visually disabilities, I just want to mention about chronic illnesses side. My mother has a chronic illness called Multiple Skleroz(MS). She doesn’t have any physical disabilities but have the other symptoms -main ones is like getting tired so quickly, being excessively emotional, weakness etc.- so when you look at her you can’t estimate her illness. Many times people can’t understand her and question legitimacy of her disease or think that she exaggerates her condition. It can be very challenging and upsetting for her. As a consequence, it’s very important being kind and extra understanding to all individuals around us..
For blind people imagination helps. I have some disabled relatives also and shared how the cope
This lesson was like an university lecture thank you. ı have been learning english for years but I learn a new word every time. I wonder if it is possible to learn all English words? Thank you so much again senior teacher Luke.
My fav teacher 🇧🇩
You know, a lot of blind people have to rely on tts and therefore can comfortably absorb audio information with something like 3x speed or even 4x, I think it’s badass and goes to show that they too can be much stronger and/or smarter than most of us, usual people.
Excellent, more podcasts like this
Hey Luke. My name is Hamid and I am from Iran. I've been watching your podcasts for a while. They help me alot with listening and speaking English alot. I have a suggestion for your next podcast. If it's possible make it about my country. Most of the people just heard Iran and they don't know more than it's a country. But it's so diverse geographicly or socially. There are alot of subjects that you can cover with this topic and I can help you with that. However I will be so glad if you do it. thanks alot for your posts. They are a great help for english learners.
It would be great if you still talk about the military factories that produce drones and missiles that bomb Ukraine
I’m not Beatles fan,but it was interesting.From this video i knew something about band
Hi Luke! Thank you for your podcast! A lot of new vocabulary and very important subject! Could you please explain what is phrase “how do other people treat you?” mean?
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Luke, What are your thoughts on what George Carlin says about "soft language"?
Do you think we should use “hard language” when describing people with disabilities? I think Carlin is hilarious by the way, but not all language changes are bad. Sometimes there are good reasons why we change the terminology we use, like for example making sure we don’t victimise or stigmatise people with language. But also some changes are for bad reasons, like finding ways to hide injustices behind more positive-sounding language. What do you think Carlin would say about the language we use to describe people with disabilities?
I don't think we should use hard language. You cannot ignore how the words you say will be perceived by the other party. A word that you attach a positive meaning may be interpreted negatively by the other person. You must be aware of what you say may mean to the audience you are addressing. So no I don't think we should use hard language. But I agree with George Carlin that softening the language will not correct the situation described. In fact, softening the real situation can often lead to problems being ignored. In some communities, it may be wrong to describe a blind person as blind. It is not doing any good for them. It would not be wrong to define language as a constantly changing living organism. I think taking the language into a dream world far from reality is wrong. It is possible to be honest and kind at the same time when communicating. @@LukesEnglishPodcast
In these cases, and the ones I described in the episode, it’s a question of using specific and descriptive language and not euphemistic language (dream language) in order to make sure these people are treated fairly. It’s ok to describe a blind person as blind, but saying “visually impaired” also acknowledges that there are many varieties of blindness, not just 100% blind or 100% sighted. I don’t think the terms “soft language” or “hard language” are appropriate here. It’s simply a case of “accurate language” and “stigmatising language”.
Hello, Luke!Thank you for such great job you are doing.!❤My question is -which variant is correct "write me " or "write to me"?
They’re both correct. “Write me” is American English. “Write to me” is British English.
Hello Luke, I m from Russia. Work as a doctor, I've been listening your podcast for about 4 months, very useful and interesting. Keep doing your great work!
Hey luke to you a question what do you think about israil with paalesstin war
I think it’s a horrible tragedy and I can’t stand to read the news about it every day. I hope that somehow a resolution can be found and that both sides can find a way, even if it seems impossible, to stop the fighting and to live together in peace, but this means having to put aside what has been done in the past and I understand that will be extremely difficult to do.
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It’s a dark world.
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Hallo luko, i hope u doing well I want ask you Why we cant dowlond the videos
KZhead doesn’t allow video downloads, I think. You can download the audio for every episode on my website www.teacherluke.co.uk/episodes
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It's so annoying and weird that some people think they can use any adjectives they want when talking to people they don't know.
Really? You’ve just used two. Do I know you from somewhere? Sorry, I’m just being ironic.
Looks like he's still cooking something in the oven 😎
Imagine: you don't know, what blue looks like... Or a human face... I think that's it to be blind and its just horrible.
If you’ve never known, then I guess you don’t know what you’re missing. Also, let’s not assume that blind people are always having a horrible time.
@@LukesEnglishPodcast You've never known but you know it exists. The curiosity or desire to know is hard.
Luke does baldness part of the disability.
Luke Why haven't talked about ongoing genocide in Gaza? Or urge your followers to donate, as you did during the earthquake accident in Türkiye and Syria?
Thank you very much. I recommend reading the Quran to you because you will benefit a lot and you will like it.
how does it feel to be Palestinian parents
whenever you say paracetamol... :)
Another one from Turkey 🙂 Nice to see you here, babe 😎
@@cevahir1155 Babe?!?!
@@esraalev Just chill it Esra. You don't need to "kasmak' that much my dear lady. Well, I'm done sweety!
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Free Palestine 🇵🇸
الحمد لك يا الله على نعمة الاسلام الحمدلك على نعمة البصر والحمد لك على جميع النعم التي لا تعد ولا تحصى ❤🤲🤲
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