ChatGPT vs Wanikani mnemonics

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I have just past level 20 and I noticed that for at least 5 levels the quality of the mnemonics, especially the meaning mnemonics, have not been so great and funny as in the first levels.

As an experiment, I took the quite boring mnemonic of 派…

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…and asked ChatGPT to produce a short mnemonic with the same words:

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I don’t know you but to me such mnemonic is much more impactful and interesting to read than the original one. Would it be maybe a stupid idea to flag the so called “boring” mnemonics and rework them with AI? Of course I’m not suggesting to rewrite them all, but a good number of them could be improved.

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I use WaniKani’s mnemonics as a suggestion but tend to try to make my own that incorporates both the reading and meaning because I’m too lazy to remember two mnemonics per kanji. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using ChatGPT for inspiration, it just takes time to do so.

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Use whatever mnemonics work for you. Of course WK can’t come up with mnemonics that work for everyone.

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Yes, like for me. I’m French, so i never really read the mnemonics :sweat_smile:
I translate the word in french and try to remenber it with reference i had.

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