Yes, I had a Middle English professor who told us how he was like 14 years old before he realized that the word "facetious" was pronounced "fa-SEE-shus" - he's always said, "FA-set-us" in his head. And some of those names can be tricky - but honestly, I had a Greek Mythology guide (still do) with a pronunciation guide at the back. Once I figured out the principles of pronunciation for *those* names, I applied them to similar names. And in the same way, if I know how to pronounce vowels and consonants for a particular language, I apply that guideline to the names of that language's origin when I'm reading. So yeah, it's not particularly hard to figure out in most cases. There are exceptions when I'll just simplify or even substitute if absolutely necessary - things like Mayan names or names that include things I find unpronounceable.
It doesn't surprise me at all that I'm high auditory, though I also have very good visual memory and also I use kinesthetic training all the time. I will write my lines out longhand too when I'm memorizing - many, many, many times while I'm memorizing. But I combine it with reading them and hearing them, and especially with saying them at rehearsal. Getting blocking really cements them for me, too. And I usually only need to be given blocking once to remember it. (It kinda drives me crazy when people are given their blocking and then can't repeat it as given.)
As far as pitch, I have pretty excellent relative pitch, though not by any means perfect, and I don't have perfect absolute pitch, just really good memory for absolute pitch. I certainly can't tell you the frequency of any particular pitch, I'm not mathematical in that way. But I've never been a good musician in terms of playing instruments, I'm a singer, so again, it's all in the ear.
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Date: 2010-08-29 06:33 am (UTC)It doesn't surprise me at all that I'm high auditory, though I also have very good visual memory and also I use kinesthetic training all the time. I will write my lines out longhand too when I'm memorizing - many, many, many times while I'm memorizing. But I combine it with reading them and hearing them, and especially with saying them at rehearsal. Getting blocking really cements them for me, too. And I usually only need to be given blocking once to remember it. (It kinda drives me crazy when people are given their blocking and then can't repeat it as given.)
As far as pitch, I have pretty excellent relative pitch, though not by any means perfect, and I don't have perfect absolute pitch, just really good memory for absolute pitch. I certainly can't tell you the frequency of any particular pitch, I'm not mathematical in that way. But I've never been a good musician in terms of playing instruments, I'm a singer, so again, it's all in the ear.