Listening Dr.

Yesterday, I obtained a special material for ear training to brush up my English listening skill. It is called "Listening Dr." and was developed by Mr. Denda,who used to be a musician and thought Japanese people were necessary to train their ears in order to catch correct sounds of English as well as music. He had worried about Japanese players' poor playing of Western classical music and researched the reason for years. Finally, he found Japanese people have a problem to catch correct sounds of music due to interference of spoken Japanese which frequency level is much lower than any other languages. Moreover, he noticed to train musician's ear was the same process to train English learner's ear. The material contains several training CDs and a headphone set. We can listen to the specially processed sounds of music and English through the headphones. We feel as if the sounds massage the ear moving right and left alternately. Mr. Denda says the material is useful not only for training the ear but also stimulating the brain giving the energy of high frequency sounds of music. Actually, after listening to one of the training CD, I felt much better. I will record my improvement of listening skill by checking the result of quizzes and prove how useful this material would be.