When I talked to future CW candidates I had always get the counter response from them. They describe their smart way of learning. It sounds great in theory. Immediately I would stop advising them because they seemed to reject the initial advised.
We don't learn CW by memorizing the dit and the dah. If you sit and pass the test by memorizing them you will not acquire the skill even after passing and would not dare to come on this mode. The best way is by the sound recognition. There will not be any mental translation taking place. You will recognize the character by the sound. There are about 40 odd sounds for you to hear and listen to them until they become familiar.
The association of the sound to the characters can come later. After repeated association you will immediately creat the character as you hear the sound. There are many people who can associates words to sound like HPE C U AGN or 9M2AR or 9M2MGL. But for beginners character recognition is vital than the word recognition.
People who earned skill and finally go fast CW are people who recognized sound character or words. There is zero mental translation. There is no time to translate the dit and dah into characters.
For once stop being too proud of your smartness and think we can learn from the others.
You don't have to have me as a teacher. You can teach yourself or get a group and practice more on it. If you do it rightly I can bet you are going to have plenty of fun among yourselves even though the CW test is two years ahead.
I remember 9M2ZN told me that they were 5 or 6 of them went for the Morse test, only he and 9M2ZM get thru. Now 9M2ZM can send and copy Morse while driving and Mazwan can go 45 wpm CW.
Morse is not cut for a certain human specie. You don't have to be special to acquire the skill. You only need to follow the right approach and in one of my articles before I did mention that there is only one right approach; repeated hearing to recognize the sounds of the characters and automatic with characters association. And practice makes perfect. Millions or billions of the world population are learning languages and recognitions by repetition, days in and out they have been hearing and seeing things.
You just follow my advice and you will pass with flying colors.
de 9M2AR
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