Yup. :) If I have to engage with the physical world to learn something, I will nope right out of it in 5 minutes or less.
But even worse than that, or maybe as a specific application of that, learning writing systems gives me literal headaches and nausea. That severely limited what languages I could do in my Indo-European PhD (read: I had to stick to the ones with an alphabet).
Now that I have a better idea of what works and doesn't work for my brain, I think I could make more headway on the more difficult writing systems, by not doing it the way the professors assigned. But at the time, I told the head of my program that if I had to read any more Devanagari (which is more complex than an alphabet, and which was required to get your PhD), and in particular if I was responsible for being able to read in it on my Sanskrit qualifying exam, I was quitting the doctoral program and switching to Classics. Fortunately, it wasn't required, so I squeaked through on Sanskrit. :)
more generally speaking physical reinforcement not working as a way to reinforce other learning
Lets just say physics and chemistry labs were a nightmare. ;)
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Date: 2021-11-21 12:20 am (UTC)But even worse than that, or maybe as a specific application of that, learning writing systems gives me literal headaches and nausea. That severely limited what languages I could do in my Indo-European PhD (read: I had to stick to the ones with an alphabet).
Now that I have a better idea of what works and doesn't work for my brain, I think I could make more headway on the more difficult writing systems, by not doing it the way the professors assigned. But at the time, I told the head of my program that if I had to read any more Devanagari (which is more complex than an alphabet, and which was required to get your PhD), and in particular if I was responsible for being able to read in it on my Sanskrit qualifying exam, I was quitting the doctoral program and switching to Classics. Fortunately, it wasn't required, so I squeaked through on Sanskrit. :)
more generally speaking physical reinforcement not working as a way to reinforce other learning
Lets just say physics and chemistry labs were a nightmare. ;)