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huh, my Japanese flashcard reviews in Anki seem to go better when (because of circumstances) I have to keep quiet and can't pronounce anything aloud. I guess using our actual voice blocks out the imagination a bit, and our imagination is much more useful… hard to explain why
one difference is that the visual stimulus becomes the main thing occupying our brain, rather than the sound of an attempted pronunciation, which means that we're paying more attention to the kanji (all our flashcards have both kanji and the kana reading on the front of the card)
but also, with the imagination more free to do its thing, I notice we read different words in different voices. more or less every word in our Anki deck is something said by a character in an anime (or VN, or tokusatsu…) who has a voice. this aids our memory maybe?
@hikari my understanding is that multi-sensory input is important for recall.
Are you using https://www.immersionkit.com/ by any chance?
@shift_reset nope! our Anki deck consists entirely of words we have looked up while watching or reading things (the process of doing which is stimulating in itself, because it forces us to put a lot of effort into word segmentation and disambiguation among other things)
@shift_reset sometimes when consuming things with subtitles or translation, sometimes when consuming things without