How to study your presentations skill in Catch Questions

Presentation skill is necessary for any business person. You may imagine you have to go on stage, have a microphone, show some slides of Power Point or Keynote and make a speech of the future like Steve Jobs. But I mean it includes any small scale one. For example, the daily work of sales rep for selling, making a comment at business meeting and job interview with supervisor are all what is called presentation.

This kind of skill is basically and strongly related with your performance evaluation and may contribute to your promotion or good salary and your wealthy life. On the other hand, it is hard to learn in school. Of course, in some advanced countries like United States, it is popular to make a debate discussion in particular universities. But, I think the natural skill is not achieved in school but mostly in your daily life. And it has to be improved by yourself to be genuine. From my personal experience, somehow those who are doing poorly in school but have many friends tend to make an excellent presentation.

While I mention this, I have to admit it is very difficult to confirm which presentation is objectively and truly excellent one. In the end, it depends on the personal view of audience. In addition to telling things, moving audience by hart is required for professional. Those who have many friends are the living evidence of capturing friend’s harts so it may be natural that their performances are popular.

Catch Questions may not be needed for these guys with the natural presentation skill. It is rather intended to be used for someone without it. And I would like to support those who are not good at presentation but dedicated and enthusiastic. These kind of people often have the particular genius ability but lose the chance of promotion only because of the lack of presentation skill. I actually have seen friends of mine like this in my life.

It is true that one’s looks, the introduction before presentation or the direction of light up or stage decoration are sometimes counted for good presentation factors. So, I don’t say it is enough if you use Catch Questions. But at least, Catch Questions would like to support you as far as it can. So, I hope you to use it as one of your favorite App.

Now, let me show how to use Catch Questions for the training.

1.      Set your situation of your presentation

The Catch word can be the title of the situation. For example, Job interview, sales work or meeting of some research, any situation would be fine to connect your questions.

2.      Add potential questions to the catch word

In particular situation, there are frequent and typical and questions. These kinds of questions should be added to your catch word. If you would like to practice using Power Point or Keynote, I would recommend you to add a question one slide by one.

Later, you can change the order as you wish.

3.      Now, start your practice

After you make enough questions, start your practice. It is hard to move someone by hart without genuine words of your own. Those who talk a lot with friends naturally achieve these words but who not would be recommended to practice with your questions. In Catch Questions, your questions can show up randomly and the sudden question sometimes will discover your true words. So, record them and listen to them carefully. You can also adjust your question rate so that you can practice with your weak question. This will enable you to practice efficiently.

4.      Use your pictures

You can set one picture by one question. You can make a screen shot from Internet or take picture from your slide of Power Point or Keynote. A fearful face of your supervisor or your memorable handwriting can also be a picture of Catch Questions. The point is to practice seeing the image, not seeing the sentence. Your own words become vivid in this way.

5.      BBS of Catch Questions

The original bulletin board system is provided in Catch Questions. Here, you can meet a question of your friend. Your question may be answered by them. And, you can also download your favorite question into your iPhone.

CQ for your unique presentation

Here is the link;

Presentation Practice with Catch Questions

English Speaking Study for example

One of the most recommended ways to use Catch Questions is learning foreign language. Of course, you can learn your first language by using Catch Questions. It is intended to be used for studying any language. As Japanese, I wanted to some App like this for studying English when I was student but there was no App that I really wanted at that time. So that is why I came up with the idea that I should make the App someday by my self.

The language skill is generally categorized as Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. But, what is the most weak point for us to learn foreign language? For Japanese, it was thought to be that studying Speaking is the most difficult. There may be some reason of our culture and country back ground about this problem. For example, there is little opportunity to meet foreigner in Japan or almost no chance to use foreign language except through Internet. I have studied English at least for 20 years but I still fell the weak point to tell the truth. Many of Japanese who never lived in foreign country like me might feel it as I.

However, for my opinion, I think the most important problem is the educational structure of ours. I mean in typical educational school, students are being scored by some test to evaluate who is superior or not. How about your country? And, it is difficult to score someone’s speaking skill. For positive point of the view, without the evaluation of speaking skill, it may become a equal examination for anybody because it is easily affected by personal judgement. On the other hand, if we continue this education, the adults who cannot speak well will definitely increase.

Then, how important is the speaking skill for us? Most of adults at least in Japan may see it is not so important because of the educational background. However, in these 4 skills of language, which one did you acquire at first from your birth? Is there any baby who cannot speak but can listen, read or write?  I have to admit the speaking skill is the most fundamental from them. And, why I mentioned this so much is that most of our creative idea comes with speaking. You may not do oral speaking but at least you speak something in your mind when you come up with some unique idea. So, that is why I hope you to review the importance of speaking skill. I actually came up with the idea of Catch Questions by continuing speaking in my mind. If you acquire several languages, the potential will doubled or tripled.

Now, let me show you how to study speaking on Catch Questions. First of all, don’t speak by rote. While speaking, I recommend you not to see the sentence but to see the image. Some keywords to increase your idea may be acceptable but the sentence of your mind will decrease your creative speech. Who speaks your first language seeing some sentence in your ordinary communication? In addition, human memory with some image tend to be stronger in your mind than with some sentence. You may afraid of some errors while speaking but I believe the error or the different expression is always the origin of your creation. I would like you to record the creation with Catch Questions.

From the repeat study of speaking like this, you will acquire your own words from various language. And, the more you learn languages, the more chance you will get for your life.

Hope to see your creative speech!

Here is the link;

English and Japanese study with Catch Questions

iPhone APP Catch Questions now for speaking

When I was a child, I liked a lot of riddles. They were always something new to me and sounded like magic. The more difficult to solve they were, the more I was interested in. I still remember the joy of solution in my childhood. And now, I would like to share the joy for educational purpose. For my App, I named it as “Catch Questions”. In English, the name may include the bad image which is usually made in some examination from a stubborn teacher. But, please don’t worry! My intention is more positive usage. I just chose the title because it sounds like a “cat” of my favorite animal.

Anyway, Whatever the examination, the research, the study or the training is, I recommend you to use some unique riddle. The more tricky it is, it will stick around your brain. And, you will think the subject deeply and sometimes discover your own goal as I created this App. I hope my App to be useful for your creation, especially for your study of foreign language, presentation speech, academic research, programing and music composition.

Catch Questions are made according to 5 concepts for efficient brain memory.

Let me show them as follow;

1.      Repeat Practice

Repeat Practice is a basic way to remember something. However, the important point is that you have to repeat your practice at the timing you almost forget. In Catch Questions, you can set your own question rate for repeat practice. So, you can focus on your weak point of some subject by increasing the rate. It will enable you to study anything easily and efficiently.

2.      Chain Memory

If you have several questions for same kind topic, I recommend you to connect them. One of unique features of my App is you can set “Catch Word” as the title. This will enable you to associate your questions and answers.

3.      View Image

Human memory gets strong as the subject becomes brilliant and bright. It is impossible to remember everything by using only letters or numbers. So, what should we use? Why don’t you use your album collection of pictures. If you are emotionally moved while you are learning something, your memory may produce the origin of creation.

4. Creative Speech

The goal of Catch Questions is creation. Not by rote, please pull spontaneously and gradually your precious memory with your unique idea. That is the way to discover your inspiration. To do this , I recommend you to speak naturally to your self and record your speech. Catch Questions can record your speech. For out put skill, speaking makes more errors with some sudden questions than writing but your truly intention, hope and dream are hidden in their errors. So, listen to your honest comment of your heart with your catch questions.

5. Social Incentive

Finally, what the most important part is your motivation for doing anything. It is very difficult to continue something solely and it is very lonely if nobody see your work. Catch Questions provides unique community through its BBS. In this BBS, you can share your questions. Someone with your same vision may answer your question. And not only this but also you can download your friend’s question and answer in your iPhone easily. You can catch various questions here.

Here is the link;

iPhone speaking APP: Catch Questions