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read lips
how can you learn to read lips?
or is just a practice sort of thing
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Being able to properly read lips is a demanding skill. Some deaf people that choose (or are educated) to community orally - meaning speaking and reading lips - can still have difficulties, and they spend their whole lives reading lips.
Hearing people take in all sorts of information when they speak with someone - lip shapes, the words being said, how the words are said, facial expressions, etc. This makes it more difficult to concentrate solely on the lips...and you might look a little weird if you suddenly stopped making eye contact!
If you are interested in lip reading from a distance, this is even more difficult. I would suggest you going with your guy feeling rather than trying to pick out every word. You can learn a lot from watching people's body language, and there are a lot of great sites on the internet that offer info on this - though I think the best expert is always YOU. Your intuition is there for a reason, and it's probably based on a lot of small signals you aren't even aware of picking up!
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Watch how people exaggerate their lips, and try doing the same with yours. Also try to overexaggerate your words so you can recognize how each word feels as it rolls off your tongue. And then, of course, just practice.
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You can all it is to get use to doing that ,some practice believe me then you'll be good at it in no time.
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