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What causes hearing loss?

What causes hearing loss?

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As we get older, our hearing naturally gets worse. But what are the causes of this decline? And is there anything we can do to prevent it? Neil and Georgie discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary.

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Wania

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Sep 16th
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maryam ehsanpour

How I can have a text too?

Sep 13th
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Behzad Farrokhzadeh

Vocabulary sense organs specific parts of the human body (ears, eyes, tongue, nose and skin) which allow you to experience the outside world funnel move or direct something through a narrow space wear and tear the damage that comes from ordinary everyday use we're doomed! (informal) used to say that we are destined to be defeated or to fail downward spiral situation which continuously gets worse and worse redundancy in the system having more than one way to achieve an outcome so that a backup me

Sep 12th
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Maryam Janmohammadi

چراپخش نمیشه

Sep 12th
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What causes hearing loss?

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