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RTK Audio Prompts - Daichi - 2009-12-02
I don't know if anyone has been following Khatzumoto's tweets, but the other day he had a couple links to a new study about "listening-while-you-sleep". While the study states that learning something in your sleep has never proved to be useful, you can use audio prompts while you sleep to rehearse something you just learned and strengthen your memory.
So keep in mind this theory is for rehearsal, not for learning. But that should be good enough for us.
Audio Podcast:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5956/1079/DC2
Podcast Transcript (bottom of page 6):
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5956/1131-b/DC1
NY Times Article (requires login):
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/science/20sleep.html?_r=2&hpw
I honestly don't know if I'm going to take the time to execute this, but lets list some possibilities for using this theory with RTK1.
What to use as your audio prompts:
-Find a unique audio sfx to play for all your RKT cards. Something like 猫 meowing, 犬 barking, or 心 throbbing. Simple foresight tells me this could prove rather difficult since quite a number of Heisig's keywords are rather abstract. Finding sfx style audio could be simply difficult and confusing for the 2-3k keywords.
-Using the keywords themselves as audio prompts. How simple, I suppose this could be human generated or even computer generated. (Miku Hatsune anyone? XD)
-Japanese Keyword audio prompts. So long as this is spoken from a fluent speaker, this would certainly make the switch to Japanese keywords go a lot smoother. And it's extra Japanese aural practice. http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=929
-Another thought would be all the Kanji's actual readings (RTK2), but since there are so many redundancies, I don't think this would be a practical rehearsal prompt. Since I believe memory prompts are most useful if they are completely unique.
Okay, so you setup audio prompts for all your keywords. How do you study them? Would you want the audio on the question side or the answer side of the card? I'm honestly not sure if it's going to make a difference, but I'd probably just stick it on the answer side.
It's time for sleep, what now? Personally, I'd somehow set it up so I'd be listening to the audio prompts related to the cards I'm having the most trouble with, the cards with the lowest ease I guess. If you could set it up to have spacing related with your SRS data, even better.
Anyway, I'm no expert (I'm not sure anyone really is) but I think it's an interesting topic, any thoughts?
RTK Audio Prompts - nest0r - 2009-12-02
I remember this article. I debated with myself whether to post it, decided not to because though I was intrigued, something felt... off? I guess the emphasis on spatial recall and the limited testing has me taking a wait and see approach. I also didn't want to feel responsible for AJATT linking to it. j/k
Anyway, couldn't hurt to experiment.