About sound passing through walls – for native English speakers.
In Danish we have a word, ”lydt” , which means that sound easily passes through walls.
So someone might say for instance, ”It's very ”lydt” in my apartment”. It means that you can easily hear sounds from other apartments or rooms. How would you express this in English in a natural way?
Thanks for your help!
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Answers · 11
3
We would just say: " I've got thin walls."
2
Our walls are like paper.
Related is "echoey", though that's better when the room has not yet been decorated.
2
Someone else may have a better answer but I would say something similar to what you used to describe the Danish word.
The walls are not very soundproof, I can hear every word they say (or everything that happens) in the apartments around me/next to me/above me/below me etc.
Personally i will not live in a place with walls like that :-) .
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colloquially you can say "The walls are paper thin"
0
I agree with Matthew: The walls are paper thin / Thin as paper. Although I have a friend who said once "my apartment's walls are made out of toothpaste". Meaning 'really lydt'.
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