傾聴

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 傾聴 is read as けいちょう and functions as a noun or with する for attentive listening to another person.
• Basic usage: Mark what is heard with を in 話を傾聴する and the person addressed with への in 相手への傾聴.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• を and への
  • を makes the spoken content the object of listening, whereas への marks the person toward whom the listening is directed.
• Hearing and attentive listening
  • The focus is not sound reaching the ears but deliberately receiving another person's words without interrupting.