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If you understand the structure of the brain, you'll be able to see what you should do when you learn English.
Hello everyone! I'm Nishizawa Roy, an English doctor.
In this channel, I teach you about the non-conventional learning methods that make difficult English easy to learn.
Today, I would like to tell you about the importance of certain exercises based on brain science.
It's based on brain science, isn't it?
That's right. Understanding the structure of the brain is an important way to improve your English.
It's because of the current era in which brain science has developed that many people should know this fact.
Can you play the piano?
No, I can't play the piano.
It's amazing that people who are good at playing the piano are amazing.
In fact, I used to be asked to play the piano.
Oh, I see.
My mother was a piano teacher, so my older brother was also asked to play the piano.
You were asked to play the piano?
That's right.
Well, that's why I failed in the middle of playing the violin.
The reason why I talked about playing the piano is that I bought a book called The Brain of a Pianist in a book I bought a long time ago.
This book was really interesting.
I'm really curious about the mechanism of superposition.
At first, you start practicing playing the piano with one hand and right hand, right?
And then the left hand.
I'm left-handed, but 90% of the people in the world are right-handed, so they don't move their left hand as much as they think they do.
And then you practice playing with both hands.
At first, your hands start to move smoothly from a jittery feeling.
And at first, you're supposed to play the sound accurately, but you're supposed to play it with a lot of feeling.
And it's amazing that you don't look at the keyboard in the distance and hit it.
And then you cross your hands.
When you get better at playing the piano, you'll be able to do that.
What's going on in your brain?
That's what the book tells you.
What the hell is going on?
Your brain is doing small energy.
Small energy? What do you mean?
At first, when you're a beginner, you can't move your right hand very well.
But if you practice over and over again, you'll be able to move smoothly.
What's going on in your brain at this point?
The nerve cells to move your fingers are gradually being saved.
It's a very simplified way of expressing it.
Let's say you were using 100 nerve cells at first.
That's how you're moving your hands.
It's going to decrease to 80 or 50.
Why is it decreasing?
You can say that your brain is optimized.
You can also think that you're not doing anything unnecessary.
At first, you can't do it, and you can't do it, and you can't do it.
For example, there's a wink that makes one eye pop.
I'll give it a try.
I'm not good at this.
I'm not good at it.
As you can see, I'm still good at this wink.
But when it comes to this, I'm not good at it.
What's going on is that I close both eyes.
There's a lot of useless movement, such as the mouth being hung together and moving.
That's how much extra nerve cells you're using.
But if you practice over and over again, you'll gradually stop doing useless things.
You'll be able to move only one eye freely.
In other words, it can be said that the brain is optimized.
It can also be said that extra brain cells are saved.
When you look at it in the big picture, the brain is gradually being saved.
That's what it means to be saved.
At first, for example, I was using 100 brain cells to pull with my right hand.
I got used to it and I was able to live with 50.
Next, I used 120 brain cells in my left hand.
I was able to live with 60.
Then let's go left and right with both hands.
At that time, please think of a total of 110.
This is a fairly simple and appropriate visualization, so it's not actually like this.
It's not a simple addition.
But somehow, as an image, by doing this, the brain becomes a light source.
You'll be able to take on more difficult and complicated things.
That's how it works.
And pulling with both hands.
This is also by repeating the practice.
Gradually, brain cells are being saved.
Then you'll be able to take on even more difficult tricks.
You'll be able to pull faster.
That's how the brain works.
If you understand the structure of this brain properly,
you'll be able to see what you should do when learning English.
And what's important is repetition practice.
Repeat the same thing over and over again.
That's repetition practice.
If it's sports, everyone does it.
For example, swinging a bat or a racket.
If it's soccer, lifting, passing, shooting,
basketball, dribbling, free throw,
you'll definitely do a lot of repetition practice.
I used to play baseball, so I've been swinging a lot.
But when it comes to English,
there are a lot of people who say repetition practice is boring and don't do it.
For example, let's say you learned how to pronounce.
I explained how to pronounce R in a video the other day.
So, for example, if you can say write well,
but you're relieved that you did it,
a lot of people end up with that.
Wow, that's a big hit.
That's not what you should do.
It's repetition practice.
Repeat it over and over again.
Write, write, read, root, red, rock.
Say it like that.
Ronald ran around on a ranch.
Say it over and over again in English with a lot of R sounds.
By doing this and doing repetition practice,
your brain cells will be optimized and you'll be able to say it more smoothly.
That way, even in a conversation,
you'll be able to pronounce R correctly without thinking about anything.
That's why you have to do repetition practice.
Repetition practice is important.
Listening is the same.
There's a sentence, you listen to it, you check the answer,
you say, oh, that's what you said, and you listen to it a couple of times, and that's it.
There are quite a few people like that.
When there are other sounds like the subject of listening,
it's not about listening to one sound thoroughly over and over again.
There are a lot of people who get their hands on new sounds one after another.
Well, I think it's fun to do new things like that.
That's right. It's definitely fun.
And I think a lot of people find it boring to repeat the same practice over and over again.
Especially if you're not good at English.
But I told you about the structure of the brain.
If you don't do repetition practice properly, you won't be able to get to the next level.
Understanding English or using English is a pretty complicated act.
You have to do a lot of things at the same time.
You're doing it at the same time.
There are a lot of differences between Japanese and English.
The same goes for pronunciation.
That's why there's pronunciation practice, and there's listening and ear training.
The vocabulary is very different, and the usage of words and grammar are very different.
That means there are people who repeat the action of expressing in English.
And the English conversation that combines listening, pronunciation, and what you want to say.
That kind of repetition practice is extremely important.
Because the brain is not used to it.
Because Japanese and English are very different.
The brain is not used to the feeling of English yet.
That's why everyone does a lot of unnecessary things.
If you try to pronounce English, you'll get extra power.
It's going to be a Japanese-style katakana pronunciation.
And you rely on Japanese.
You try to understand and speak in Japanese.
There are a lot of beginners who do unnecessary things like that.
That's why we repeat the same practice.
So that the brain doesn't use unnecessary cells.
By doing so, you can speak English more naturally.
You can use English smoothly.
You can understand.
You can do complicated things.
That's how we improve.
I understand the importance of repetition practice.
Can you give me a specific example?
Roger that.
Let's take listening as an example.
A lot of people use new subjects to listen.
For example, there are people who like foreign dramas.
Let's say you're listening while watching English subtitles.
If you do that, it's fun.
It'll be over in an hour.
But if you just keep doing it, you'll improve.
You need a little more ingenuity.
Because there's no repetition practice.
So it's more like watching a foreign drama than learning English.
That's true. It's not learning English.
Even if you watch a foreign drama for 60 minutes, it's hard to learn.
I have a friend who's a professional singer.
When she was there, she taught me how to improve my singing.
Do you want to know, Tony?
Yes, I really want to know.
In order to improve your singing, you can't sing a song with your whole body.
I can't sing with my whole body?
You have to practice repeating each phrase to improve your singing.
Oh, I see.
If you apply that to English,
The drama is enough for one scene.
So I watch it over and over again.
I repeat it over and over again.
Of course, I'm listening seriously.
And I practice repeating the expressions that come out of that scene so that I can use them myself.
In addition, there is a practice that mimics the scene of the drama and plays it.
It's called role play.
It's effective to repeat that kind of thing.
That's how you step in and practice repeating.
I see. I understand.
That kind of repetition practice is completely different from just watching a drama.
It's obvious.
So this time, I told you about the importance of repetition practice.
The brain science has developed a lot.
I want you to know the structure of the brain.
And by practicing repetition,
I hope you can improve your singing.
Until now, I've been working on a new learning method.
I was really impressed with today's story.
I realized that repetition practice is very important in the field of brain science.
From now on, I want to practice a lot like I was playing baseball.
It was for today.
Thank you very much.
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This was English doctor Nishizawa Roy.
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