Synopsis
This book attempts to explore "Umami" in reading alphabetic languages. In this exploration each European language will reappear as "Umami English (UE)" "Umami German (UG)" "Umami French (UF)" "Umami Italian UI)" and so forth. What exactly is Umami? It is a loanword from Japanese. It means a primary taste in food, so pleasant and savory that it makes those taste-sensitive people happy. Here I emphasize that Umami exists not only in food but almost on all aspects of life. All we need is just to ooze it out from whatever involved and make better use of it in the course of life. Then what is Umami in reading? It means gained cognitive sense to enjoy the greater magnitude of reading pleasure. It is visually enhanced reading comprehension with incredible long retention of what is read as a context. It is the eye-catching layout of sentences that makes Umami in reading occur. Umami is speed, and it only exists in reading by the eye. For alphabet sentences where non-verbal, visual reading is very limited, if any, to read quickly at a lightening-speed never occurs. One exception is "Photoreading" by Paul R. Scheele who claims 6000-words-per-minute reading is possible, which I call movie camera shooting where there is definitely no Umami in reading.
About the Author
Working for Pan Am from February 1968, and on to United Airlines until December, 2007, the retired date, the author had travelled to many parts of the world. Still today, at the age of 64, he is on the move flying constantly. The author was not a pilot nor a flight attendant. Flying long distance makes him a man of ideas. His ideas, to name a few, are from inventing various kinds of health promoting machines on the long-distance planes and self karaoke singing machines, to on-board language courses for young people. It was he who started a walk-man style language practicing for himself many years before Sony put their Walkman on the market on July 1, 1979. He carried a big dictionary sized tape-recorder attached to the belt around his waist using two old fashioned ear-phones then available. His waist tape-recorder was manufactured by not Sony but Sanyo. His ideas include an automatic telephone message transferring system years before it actually came into being, an electric mobile desk and table which he is using over a decade now, a cellular phone with smell detecting mechanism, brain activator and human energy accelerator switch, and an audio visual glass-earphone system to see and hear real-time, multiple scenes of any spots in the world of automatic adjustable scaled down sizes, like the eyes of a dragon-fly or monitor screens for security guards, and many more. He learned the advanced practical English through his own method of walk-man and his unique English writing style he himself calls "vertical ladder writing". He never studied at any institution abroad, but all through the ordinary local establishments, Pan Am and United Airlines. He is a world walker, having walked so far the distance longer than a globe with his wife. He plays the violin with his 39-year-old cardiologist son and twice a year he holds small concerts before his friends and families.
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