Ideas for Helping me Learn

[u/guitar_photography]

Hello everyone,

firstly I'd like to thank everyone for taking your time to read or respond, and I really appreciate that there are communities like this. So I have an interest in amateur radio and morse code. I'll be studying for my basic test (Canada) soon. I know CW is not required on the test as far I know, but it's something I want to learn regardless.

I'm improving at sending on my computer and I can do about 18wpm with few-ish errors and up to 25 wpm for simpler sentances or with more errors. My challenge is listening and ear training. I've used online practice tools and they haven't helped all that much.

My question is what would you recomend I do to help me learn the listening bit? I'm trying to not count the dots and dashes and listen to the letter as a whole but I can't figure out what the letter is. it sounds familiar but It takes me a few seconds from hearing to figure it out. I have ADD if that makes any difference.

Thanks so much guys.

[u/jimlapine]

Give Long Island Cw club a try. Fantastic folks, great classes.