Dear English speaker, please help me.

What's the difference between see, look and watch?

Give me examples.

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Also,

What's the difference between hear and listen?

Give me examples.

Please give me examples so that I can distinguish them correctly.

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Animecrazyluv · 26-30, F

I'm not good at grammar but I speak English natively.

I feel like with see it's something that appears quickly in front of you like "I see that car driving slowly" versus "I look at the car driving slowly" versus "I watch the car driving slowly"

Rather with look it's like "I look at (object)" or "I look at you or that."

Ig with watch you would say "I about to watch TV."

They can be used interchangeably but you would have to restructure the sentence to make grammatical sense whether or not it is in past or present tense too. See versus saw, look versus looking versus looked, watch versus watching versus watched.

I feel like with hear versus listen you can hear a noise or someone speak but you don't always understand it while to listen is hearing and understanding/interpreting the sound you hear to generate an internal or external response to it.

I could be wrong tho again I'm just a native speaker not an English teacher hahaha