levelled up to level 15 this morning 
didn’t realize til reading the email that i’m half way through the 苦 levels !! cool !!
in honour of this study-log, i’m continuing to experiment and play around with different approaches/speeds to learning the kanji and vocab. for this level, i’ve decided to test learning all the new level’s radicals and kanji first. This level’s new kanji was the most exciting for me so far simply bc there were lots of words i’ve already encounted which was fun e.g. 猫, 秋, 英 ! As usual, here are some thoughts/my own mnemonics!
- for 秋, i don’t really associate the ‘aki’ sound with pain like the mnemoic teaches so instead i’m going with: every autumn I watch Akira (あき)
- following the seasonal anime mnemonic, for 春 i’ve gone for: every spring I watch Haruhi (はる) Suzumia
- i worried if i learnt the reading for 岩 with Iwajima (いわ) like WK teaches, i’d end up thinking they share kanji which they don’t so instead i’ve used past mnemonics: on a boulder is perched an eagle (い) that cries (わ)
- the mnemonic for 帰 felt v odd to me bc 1) why not just say it’s かえ like the similar verb 返る or 返す (that’s how i’ll be remembering it) and 2) for those latter words they use the mnemonic of ‘car egg’ but this new word uses ‘car elephant’ which seems unnecessary - i might make a separate post for this :o (edit: i made a feedback post!)
- and lastly, my most convoluted mnemonic yet lool: for the tricky 式 meaning both ritual and equation, i’ve gone back to past mnemonics: in order to contstruct the ceremony, we need to perform the ritual of using the sheep key (しき) given the equation ‘one sheep key = one constructed ceremony’; luckily the idea of a woolen key is super cute to me hehe!
now time to learn the rest of the l-14 vocab! have a nice weekend 皆さん! 