Chapter 1: Teaching Your Tongue to Speak English
Chapter Summary: Chapter Summary: Speech is controlled in your mind by feedback from your hearing and mouth position as much as it is from your memory. If you want to speak fluent English, it is just as important to retrain your tongue as it is to train your memory. To be effective, however, you must retrain your mind, tongue, and hearing at exactly the same time because they must work together when you speak English. Why have you studied English so long in school without learning to speak fluently? It is because your teachers have tried to train your mind with written exercises without retraining your tongue at the same time.
If you want to learn to speak English fluently, it will help you to understand how the human mind produces speech. However, before looking at the mechanics of speech, I want to draw an analogy from machine control because the analogy closely parallels neurological responses in spoken language.
Open-loop machine control Wikipedia describes an open-loop control system as follows: An open-loop controller, also called a nonfeedback controller, is a type of controller which computes its input into a system using only the current state . . . of the system. A characteristic of the open-loop controller is