昨日の夜は雨が降ったみたいだ。今は空が完全に晴れているのに。
ベランダのガラスには天気がいいのに水滴がついている。風も強かったのかな。
今日はこれから英語の先生の仕事をしに、、、自分は今まで記憶のある限り何らかの形で先生をしてきている気がする！
小さい時の初めての生徒は自分の母親でした。しかし、６歳ぐらいの自分は何で親が毎日身の回りで使われている英語が話せないのかは理解ができなくて、その後大人につれて言語学、認知心理学に興味を持ち始めて、今のように音楽や言語を教えていたり、作品を作っている自分がいる。
時々一貫性の全然ない人の人生も大きな視野で見ると、ずっと一つの事をやってきている気がする。
それはどんな事なんだろうかと自分に問いかけてみて、自分が今どこにいてどこに向かっているかと振り返るタイミングって大切だと思ったり。
どんな事も頑張ればできるのは当たり前だけど、生徒達に全員伝えている英語に関する大切なポイントだけど、
言語は非常に複雑で変化し続ける物で、勉強するのは難しいのは事実だ。しかし、人間の言語を認識して覚えるための機能もとんでもない能力を持っていて、自分の潜在的に持っている言語を習得するパワーを気づいていない人が殆どだと思います。鍵は本当の意味で「聞く」事にある。最近、皆は自分の聞く言語からすぐ意味や自分の返事を考えずに純粋に「音」を聞いたりしていますか？音楽を聞くように聞く事によって、聞く行動も変化があります。としょっちゅう色々な生徒に話す事があります。
人間の能力を考えると色々な事は思っているほど難しくはない。
今度はおすすめの英語勉強に向いている動画サイトや、Podcastを紹介したいなと思う。
I woke today to a clear sky.. and wet balcony… It must have rained while I was asleep.
Today is my teaching day. Yup, I teach English here in Tokyo. I think I've been a teacher of some kind for as long as I can remember.
My first student being my mother… LOL I had no idea as a 6 year-old, why my mother couldn't speak any English. I mean, she was surrounded in an English environment…! So that sent me into the direction of learning about linguistics, language acquisition, and cognitive psychology. Now I teach using what I learned and also write my music influenced by these things I studied.
Life seems so random at times, but when you see the big picture… you realize the connections in all the things that you are doing haphazardly!
These are the important moments in life where things make sense. Where everything seems like is happening for a reason, and you are moving in the right direction. I believe it's really important to ask yourself sometimes, what you are really trying to do in life. Also to think about where you came from when you look into the future and think about what you are going to become.
Anything you do, if you try hard you'll succeed. This is what I tell my students all the time.
But sometimes they set a wall in their minds that keep them from their goals. Things are not always as hard as they seem. For example language. Sure it's an incredibly complex system, and ever-changing. However the human capacity to learn languages is also vast and just as amazing. (I mean, we made language, so why can't we learn it right?)
So here's another question. I think that the key to learning language lies not in being a master of memorization, but in listening again like when you were a child. Yes, we'll never have the same brain settings as when we were young… but we can remember how we did listen. When was the last time that you listened to language as a sound? Not just immediately jumping to meaning or jumping to think about your own response.
If you think about your true potential, the more you study about human memory or communication, for example.. the more you'll realize it's not that difficult if you have the right method.
