Over the years I've built a large collection of Japanese books and one that I've always enjoyed looking through is the Kodansha Kanji Dictionary. I've come up with a few different ways of using it (and its smaller Learner's edition sibling), and I recently tried to see if Claude AI could come up with a different type of study loop that I hadn't tried before. Since I felt this approach has some merit, I put together the study loop guidelines along with a screenshot from one of the example pages offered for the dictionary to showcase the process.
Some of the restrictions I gave Claude in the creation of this study loop included a preference to read the dictionary on the sofa, away from any electronic devices. I also didn't want to have to handwrite things down in order to increase my understanding.
Have any of you tried someting similar to this specific approach before (mostly using just brain and book)? Also interested in hearing about other study loops explored for reference materials such as this.
by ThisSteakDoesntExist