As a teacher, I need to hear people in breakout rooms, too.

[linggeek]

I am a foreign language teacher and my students are all adults.  I do not care to check whether they are on-task (they are), or who is talking/listening/participating (they all do).  I need to hear what words they are using, in what order, and how they are pronouncing those words! 

Right now, Zoom has improved breakout rooms with the enhanced breakout room app, but it is geared more toward ensuring that students are doing what they are supposed to, and giving them new info while they are in the different rooms.  The teacher can not hear the students talk.  The explanation given for this is that "it would be too confusing if you could hear everyone at once."  Wouldn't it be possible to have a "mute" button for each room?  Could I not, as a teacher, mute and unmute the breakout rooms so I could focus on what is being said in each one?  At the moment, the only option I have is to go into each breakout room and let them know I'm there.  The students, who are focused on holding their conversation or reading dialogues aloud, experience my arrival as if I came clomping into the room with my army boots on, announcing in a loud voice "Hi everyone!  I'm here listening!"  They have said they wish I could just listen to them and only say something if they need correction.  I wish that, too.