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Simon Prentis

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Simon Prentis was born in England in 1953. Initially accepted to study Chemistry at Oxford University, he graduated in 1978 with an MA in English Language and Literature before travelling to Japan to study Aikido. There he taught English and began studying Japanese while training for his black belt - gaining an RSA Diploma in TEFL along the way, and completing a course at Simul Academy, Japan's premier interpreting school. After returning to the UK in 1986 he was recruited to present a Japanese-language satellite news service for NHK, Japan's national broadcaster - but left after two years in front of the camera to set up his own bilingual production company, Simon Prentis Associates. Over the next 25 years he travelled the world working on ...more

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Simon Prentis Go and lie down and think of nothing, or just snooze for 20 mins. Always works a treat. Sometimes thinking too much gets in the way -- you have to all…moreGo and lie down and think of nothing, or just snooze for 20 mins. Always works a treat. Sometimes thinking too much gets in the way -- you have to allow thoughts to come to you from a deeper place.(less)

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Simon Prentis As Frank Zappa used to say when asked for advice to budding composers: "Get a real estate licence." Don't expect to make a living from it. Do it becau…moreAs Frank Zappa used to say when asked for advice to budding composers: "Get a real estate licence." Don't expect to make a living from it. Do it because you want to, or feel you must. It is its own reward. (less)

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	SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human 3.57 avg rating — 74 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slow fuse by Masako Togawa, Simon Prentis (Goodreads Author) (translator) 2.89 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Here's a great review of my book which covers all the main points and explains why it's a good read! https://medium.com/@info_60370/if-you...

I wrote the book as a way of making language more visible -- for we swim in a sea of speech (and writing), mostly without even noticing it. That's fine for our day-to-day lives -- like the air, we don't need to know how it keeps us alive. But language is more Read more of this blog post »

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Published on October 19, 2021 10:03

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“Why are humans so different to all other animals? Like the language we use to frame it, that can seem too obvious to ask – but the answer is rooted in words, and turns out to have been hiding in plain sight.”
― Simon Prentis, SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human

tags: evolution, human-evolution, language, speech

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