 Minasan konnichiwa. My name is Scott Perry. Hello, everyone. I'm your host, and this is Let's Talk Hawaii Today, live from Honolulu, Hawaii. This is a program about English pronunciation, communication, and interesting things in people in Hawaii. You can see me here every other Wednesday at 2 p.m., Honolulu time, 9 a.m., Japan time, and you can also visit me at dotperiacademy.com. My show used to be every Tuesday at 3 p.m., but we've moved it to Wednesday at 2 p.m., at this time every other week. And today's topic is advanced communication in English. So what does that mean, adavance communication? When you say advanced communication, many people think of speaking faster, more hayaku hanasuru koto toka, more toki vocabulary o tsukau toka, but advanced communication, the way I'm explaining it, is not that. So I'm going to explain that today and tell you a little bit about my recent trip to Japan. This is my third trip to Japan this year, but I'm going to go again next month. But I'm going to come back from last week's trip, and I'm going to share some photos with you in just a second. But today, many of you can see me live in Japan. I know some of you are watching, and I have you on my computer here. So if you send me a line message with a question, I'll be able to take your question and answer that as well. So trying that for the first time, it should work. I've done that before, and it was very interesting to get direct comments and questions from people watching. So yes, I just came back from Japan. I still have a little bit of jet lag. So my schedule and sleep pattern is a little bit off, but I'm feeling pretty good today. Now I got some photos. I was there doing a couple workshops, a few seminars, and that's me looking at my hand. Basically I'm examining my hand. No, I'm actually talking about five points. And it was an interesting workshop in Tokyo. A lot of people came and had a lot of good discussion. So it was a different type of workshop than I'm used to doing. And after the workshop, well, I had a few workshops, a very interesting exercise for Hatsun. I have another picture coming up, and people are exercising their stomach. So this is a group, one of the groups of people, a lot of nice, happy faces, and a lot of those are my regulars. We've got some after-party events. After our workshop, we go out and have dinner together and talk. Everything's in English. And what else do we have? Yeah. Here's what I was talking about. We are actually exercising our stomachs to use our o-kakumaku, to breathe with our stomach muscles versus our lungs. As you know, in Japan, if you ask people to take a deep breath, you will notice this. And that is, I'm not sure the pronunciation, koshiki koku, or kushiki koku from your stomach, and the other one is from your chest. Some people typically breathe from our stomachs. So you will see, but no shoulder movement. If you ask a room of Japanese people to take a deep breath, kaekite kurasai, to iwaru tara, minasan ga hae bakkari kara, you're not able to control your speaking or breathing with your lungs and your throat. So of course, the correct way to copy American-style English is to basically use your stomach. So aah is going to be a better sound than aah from your throat. That's just another point. And I think that's all the photos I have. And so, back to the main topic, advanced communication. As I thought, advanced communication, everyone thinks they're not advanced, they're beginners. But remember, you must separate English into two parts. One part is grammar, reading, writing, listening, and the other part is the pronunciation. The pronunciation and listening are sometimes the same, but it's not the same. Otonno no minasan ga issho ni suru yu no ha, if A person, person A, A hito ga, knows 2,000 vocabulary words, but the hatsun is not so good, they sound like a beginner. B person knows only 200 vocabulary words, but the hatsun ga kirei, they sound advanced. So it's not your vocabulary, it's your delivery. Kyou no topic wa advanced delivery, or advanced communication in English. Now, let's see, people are checking in and saying hello, so that's interesting. Hello, I see you there. Now, advanced communication, speaking and separating the two. Someone will say, arishita wa, watashi no vo kebe go wa niha kutobashika shiranai, only speak 200 words. So I'm a beginner. Maybe that's true, but your pronunciation and your information are separate, so to our brain only, you can only say what you know. It's your, how much you remembered, how much you can read and write, that's mental exercise. Hatsun wa, itzumo yuu no wa, hatsun is a physical challenge. So when a person mixes the two, usually they are not satisfied with their vocabulary. And another topic, but I tell people, you don't need to know every person's word. You don't need to know, so you don't need to know, it's okay if you don't know. You know what your word is, general words, what you use, and what your own words are. Easy enough. And many students feel, hmm, I didn't understand the story of this physical teacher. You know, mathematicians hanashi wakanakatta kono archeologists no hanashi ga wakanakatta. So my English is not good. I don't understand everything either. But I'm okay with the general words and my specialty words, and their job is to communicate to me with general words. We call it layman's terms. Layman's terms are words that we use in place of our specialty words, I guess. If I am a biologist and I'm trying to explain a complicated situation, cannot use my senmon yogo or senmon yого. So their job is to explain it in easier language. It's not my job to learn all their words. So don't feel bad about not knowing every word you hear. You need to focus on your words and the general words. Now pronunciation, yeah, it's physical. It has a limit. When you said it properly, there's nothing else to say. Thank you is not American English. Thank you would be American English. Thank you, thank you, thank you. What is the difference? Well, it's tongue position, it's vowel sound, and it's delivery. So we are going to have a general nagasa, this kind of long speaking. Some people might be a little longer, a little bit shorter, but in terms of speaking, most of you are this long. Thank you. Thank you, it's totally okay. It's not too long. It's too short. But if you are doing that, you can say high voice, low voice, you can say anything. Thank you. It's going to be American. If you say it a little bit differently, it could be British, be Irish, it could be Australian English, Japanese English, whatever, case by case. Now, advanced communication. Hmm. What comes to your mind? Have you all the same bigger words? But we have to first look at the problem. The problem is for many people, let's look at the goal. The goal of a speaker from Japan might be to talk to their friends. The people in the neighborhood. The people from the pop culture. From around Japan, everybody's coming to Japan for the Olympics. That might be their goal. They want to come to Hawaii, so they want to talk to them. That's not a individual's goal. The whole of Japan's goal. The reason why is that the whole of Japan has the same problem. Here's the problem. The problem is not being understood when you speak. So, 200 tango demo, 2,000 tango demo, aite ga rika dekinai nara dou shou mo nai desu ne. It doesn't matter what you know if the person listening can't understand you. So, the problem is miscommunication, misunderstanding of communication. So, the solution would be simple. Speaking to be understood, or copying American sound, which American people are used to. Naretero kara Amerikajin ga Amerikano oto o narete masu. So, if you copy our sound, communication will be smooth. And your first goal will be reached. Now, I have a slide coming up and I'm going to briefly go over this, advanced communication in English. And we can see here that there are several things that we want to cover. Facial expressions, hand gestures, body language, rhythm and voice, and then timing. And then I'm going to go over each one of these points, sora sora no pointo check shimasu. But these are the things that we need to understand to do advanced communication. And another area which I will look at briefly before our break is a second slide and I will come back to that. Steps in communication. And we have the beginning English. You develop your vocabulary, grammar and so on and so forth. These four steps lead to advanced communication. You first have to learn English, putting words together, memorizing words. The next thing you're going to do is try to make the sounds accurate. Finally, well, the third thing is practice. You need to use it, skatte. But skattara, you're going to make your mistakes and learn what is easy or what is not. Finally, you can attain advanced communication with more advanced technique. At this point, we're going to take a short break and we'll be right back after this brief message. Aloha, I'm Mellie James, host of Let's Mana Up. Tuesdays, every other Tuesday from 11 to 1130. This show is meant to dive into stories of local product entrepreneurs and how they're growing their companies from right here in Hawaii. I'm so thrilled to have our show kicked off and so please join us on Tuesdays at 11 o'clock as we talk to local entrepreneurs and hear their stories. Welcome back. This is Let's Talk Hawaii. And I'm your host, Scott Perry. Today we're talking about advanced communication and we are just getting into some of the processes to achieve advanced communication. Let's talk Hawaii. I'm going to go back to the slide we were just looking at. Steps in English. And we're going to keep this up for a while. Steps in English communication. According to me, this is my technique for achieving advanced communication. Now, we have where everyone starts. Beginning English. That's just what you learn in junior high or elementary. Vocabulary words. Try to understand grammar. You're making your sounds. You're learning basic parts of English. After you advance, you try to make these sounds better. In Japan, it's not American English. It's your country's English, which is different from my country's English. Now, in Japan communication may be okay, but if you go abroad, communication is not so smooth. The words have different sounds. Same meaning, but different sounds. Before you understand, there are a lot of things. Now, after you realize this, you think, how can I speak in America? You have to change your words. Then you start to focus on sound accuracy for English. Very challenging, but you've spent your life learning one style. Now you have to change to learn the American style. Now, sound accuracy and pronunciation, that's where many of you are today. And when you achieve this goal, you have a third goal, which is practice. Go out and use your English. Go out and do the third step, practical usage and trial and error. Try it, speak it. Do they understand? They're not understanding my... This, this, that, that. They don't understand. They're okay. They're always not understanding. I heard one of my students explain to me an interesting challenge, and I've heard many crazy, funny, sad, odd stories about pronunciation mis, mistaken pronunciation. I believe the person was on the bus or a train, and they said, please, or they wanted to say please, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please. But everyone stopped moving. Please stop moving. And all the people on the train in that person's area stopped moving. They thought she said, freeze. And what's going on? Is there a strange person on the train? Why do we have to freeze? So it was very odd that... Not odd, I understand. Freeze, freeze, freeze. Don't move. That could be scary. So you want to avoid that and just say please. Puh, puh, key sound, la, la, la, please. But I make that very clear. You can avoid that kind of embarrassing situation. Everyone stopped looking and, oh, there's not a problem. Maybe she's very embarrassed. But that practical usage, trial and error, is how you figure out what you're weak at and what you're okay at. And then, many of you will try to come see me. Or polishing or finishing. It doesn't matter where you are. Eventually, I'll get to you. And we'll get you to the next level, which will be advanced communication. Now, I've started teaching this, of course, to my students who need it. I've called it something different before, but actually, it's just advanced communication. Now, let's look at some advanced communication. We're going to pull up another slide here. Facial expressions. Now, once you have basically mastered pronunciation, you can say things clearly. Hello, thank you. How are you today? Where are you from? What's your name? I'm going to see a movie. Would you like to join me? It's a very nice day today. Let's go grab a coffee together. If you have beautiful pronunciation, you can do this. But the next level would be being, or being able to give your feelings, thoughts, ideas to someone else. And they can understand what you were trying to say. So just making a statement does not mean they feel what you meant to say. The words are sometimes not enough. So we use other things such as facial expression. You can sit there and go, I don't really understand. And your face is basically talking. Now, if you don't understand the words yourself, if you can't understand them well, you can't match their faces. For example, you want to say, This is very bad. It's not good. I don't want to eat it. It doesn't match. My face is not saying what my words are trying to say. So matching your face and your words, it requires deep understanding, deep understanding on your part. You need to really know the meaning of the word. See how people use it. How do you do it? What do you do when you use these words? Look at that. We are watching our parents. We watch our parents, our brothers and sisters. And we see their facial expression with their words. And then we go, I don't understand. When you say these words, it's going to be perfect. Now, moving on, we have hand gestures. You've noticed me using my hands all the time. Some people use them a lot. Some people use them a little. Usually nervous people will dis-freeze. Not please, freeze. And they will just not move. Maybe the situation doesn't require movement. But hand gestures really help you explain what you want to say. I caught a fish today. It was very heavy. And it took me many hours. I was very tired. It's like, if I use hand gestures, man, I caught a fish today. It was really heavy. It was so heavy. I was fighting this fish for an hour. I was just so tired. That makes you feel what I felt a little bit better. That makes me feel what I want to say. That's a higher level of communication. Yes, it was so hot. I was just sweating all day. You can feel what I'm trying to say. Interesting phrase. Feel what I'm trying to say. And that's another part of communication now. This is a part of communication as well. It's under body language. Moving your body in ways that give information or tells the other person how you're feeling. I caught a fish today. It was this big. It weighed four tons. And I caught it. And everyone's going, I don't believe that. You can't catch a fish that big. It's a fishing line. Anyway, that's showing concern or not believing or something. You've heard this before. Many YouTube videos on body language. But putting them together with your daily communication, that's advanced communication, leaning forward to hear what they're saying is another type of communication. Sitting back and looking very calm, relaxed. It's talking without words. And these are the things that help you to become more clear. You can subconsciously communicate like how many people were there? People look up to the right or to the left. I don't remember which way. But they're looking into their brain to find out what the number was. It's very interesting you ask a technical, mathematical question and people look in the one direction. It's interesting. If you ask a high-tech question, it's either this way or that way. It's either this way or that way. So anyway, at this point, if you have any questions, I'd like to take a question. We're getting to the end right before I go to voice rhythm and timing. Let's see. Okay, let's see what we got here. Let's see, we have a question. Oh, Yukiko. Hello, Yukiko. Hello. Yukiko asks, which is best to learn first, pronunciation or conversation? Pronunciation or conversation? Which one should I study first? pronunciation or conversation? Hmm, Shinobi-ken is conversation. Ah, no, sorry. Shinobi-ken is pronunciation. Why? When you speak in English first, the English that you receive is very different. When you speak well, people speak normally to you. When your pronunciation is a little suspicious, people speak basic to you forever. You might know 5,000 words. If your pronunciation is a little suspicious, how are you today in a very, very basic? You get to where people speak naturally. Now real quick, I'm going to go back to the last two items. Voice and rhythm. Hi, how are you? Nice to see you. That is really a nice car. This is delicious. Those voice and rhythm changes will help you explain your true feelings. And then timing. When do you jump into a conversation? When do you stay out of the conversation? When do you keep speaking or slow down? These are topics that I might need to spend a little bit more time on in the future. But for today, I hope you understand that once you get past the basics, you're ready for advanced communication. My time is up for this show, and I hope you enjoyed it. I'll see you in two weeks. Have a great day.