I know the title is kinda weird, I could not come up with anything that is both concise and fitting. Anyway, I am in my third year of college, and during my second year I noticed that paying attention in class (and staying awake) was becoming increasingly harder. That was before I discovered RtK and I was trying to learn kanji by conventional methods at the time, so I doodled various kanji on my notebook margins during classes. That helped me stay awake, but did nothing to help me pay attention.
During the summer break I started doing RtK, and when the new semester started I got a brilliant idea - instead of just doodling kanji I could listen carefully to what the lecturers say and write down a kanji every time I hear them utter a Heisig keyword that I already know the kanji for (later I decided to limit each kanji to once per lecture, because this tends to get quite repetitive eventually). That way I could kill two birds with one stone - practise my kanji and pay attention in class. Of course, the latter was my priority, but I found the method quite useful for the former, like when I recognise a keyword, but fail to recall the story, so I take a note of it and try to adjust the story.
The thing that has been bothering me recently is whether or not this constitutes "cheating" on the SRS method. Does this exercise help or hinder my memorisation of the kanji the SRS way? How problematic could this be in the future? I am new to the whole SRS thing, so expert opinions on this would be greatly appreciated.
During the summer break I started doing RtK, and when the new semester started I got a brilliant idea - instead of just doodling kanji I could listen carefully to what the lecturers say and write down a kanji every time I hear them utter a Heisig keyword that I already know the kanji for (later I decided to limit each kanji to once per lecture, because this tends to get quite repetitive eventually). That way I could kill two birds with one stone - practise my kanji and pay attention in class. Of course, the latter was my priority, but I found the method quite useful for the former, like when I recognise a keyword, but fail to recall the story, so I take a note of it and try to adjust the story.
The thing that has been bothering me recently is whether or not this constitutes "cheating" on the SRS method. Does this exercise help or hinder my memorisation of the kanji the SRS way? How problematic could this be in the future? I am new to the whole SRS thing, so expert opinions on this would be greatly appreciated.
