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―It is not just watching the lips, it‘s the whole face, especially the eyes.‖

Evelyn says that she does not only see the lip movement of the person‟s
face to make out what the person is speaking. She sees the whole face
that means the entire expression of the face of the speaker makes Evelyn
identify or know what the person is saying. She adds the expression of the
eyes helps Evelyn make out what the person sitting in front of her is
saying.

She speaks flawlessly with a Scottish lilt.

flawlessly: without a fault or mistake
lilt: a way of speaking like we say accent

The writer says that Evelyn‟s speech is flawless, and she has a Scottish
accent. (As she belongs to Scotland her voice has that accent.)

―My speech is clear because I could hear till I was eleven,‖ she says.

Evelyn says that she can speak clearly because she had learned the
language. She studied till the age of eleven, till the time she could hear.

But that doesn‘t explain how she managed to learn French and master
basic Japanese.

But after becoming deaf Evelyn also learned two new languages. She has
learnt French and basic Japanese. So, one wonders that how could she
learn these two new languages also despite her deafness.

As for music, she explains, ―It pours in through every part of my body. It
tingles in the skin, my cheekbones and even in my hair.‖