🧠 English, Your Voice, and Brain Power
- Ryan
- Mar 30
- 2 min read
How One Vocal Coach Used Curiosity to Learn Smarter
Learning English isn’t just about grammar or tests.
It's about how you train your mind, use your voice, and stay curious.
A recent study from NYU found that adults over 50 who use the internet regularly
have half the risk of developing dementia compared to those who don’t.
Moderate use—about 2 hours a day—was linked to better cognitive health.
Excessive use (6 to 8 hours daily) could increase the risk.
The takeaway?
Learning new skills, like English, activates and protects the brain.
One of my recent students is a vocal coach.
She didn’t approach English like a subject.
She approached it like a performance.
Her pronunciation improvement was remarkable.
She could hear small mistakes in herself and adjust instantly.
She used her voice the same way she’d teach her students to sing—with clarity, control, and emotion.
What stood out even more was her creativity.
She loved learning English through children’s books.
She’d take a line from a story, twist it, and rewrite it into her own version.
Not just translating—transforming it.
Every week, she brought her own sentences.
Short, playful, but packed with her personality and imagination.
She wasn’t learning English for a test.
She was learning it to express herself.
And that’s the point.
We don’t need more vocabulary drills.
We need more ways to connect English to who we are.
Use your voice.
Use your curiosity.
Use stories you love.
That’s where real language learning begins.
A Simple, Meaningful Takeaway
Your voice is not just for English—it’s how you practice showing up in life.
Each time you express yourself, even imperfectly, you're not just learning a language—
you’re building courage, clarity, and presence.
Try this:
Each day, say one thing out loud in English that feels true to you.
It doesn’t have to be perfect.
It just has to be yours.
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