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Dr. Piotr Wozniak, creator of the SuperMemo application, was my third collaborator.

Super Memo is a tool used to create ease in learning and forgetting large knowledge sources, and is especially useful for learning a new language. I was keen to find out if there were scientific ways of learning an accent, without forgetting one’s old accent. How would one classify ‘items’ into remembering and forgetting (as the SUPERMEMO application does) of intangible experiences? I sought this scientific collaboration to give a different dimension to my project.

screen shot of the Supermemo application
"You can accomplish reasonable language fluency with 5000-10,000 items in SuperMemo. Approaching native accents is more of an acting skill. It may call for another 5000-10,000 items with this vital difference that those items are not easy to find in a textbook (say "British English for natives of India"). Research shows that you need specialized neural networks for this goal. If you fail to develop these
networks early, if you live most of your life in one phonetic world, it will
always be harder (but not impossible) to compensate when moving to a new
phonetic world."

One of the responses from Dr. Wozniak.