It’s not quite perfect - I know 借 now because it’s been reinforced by 借家 and 借金, but if there had been multiple 昔-containing kanji on the same level before I was introduced to any 借-containing vocabulary, that may have confused me. Or if there aren’t enough vocab words - when 軽 pops up I have trouble because the only vocab it’s in is 軽い.
I am using both those scripts. Thanks, they help me a lot
Keisei especially helps to break down into more meaningful components.
Also @normful’s Vocab Beyond because finding vocab is super important for me to remember the kanji.
I take my time to write a short mnemonic for each kanji I learn, usually ignoring the prewritten ones. My review rate for kanji is close to 100% as least as long as it takes to guru. Sometimes I get confused when another kanji I learned later on have similar elements, and then I need to go back and see what the differences are.
The best feeling is when I see a kanji and just know the reading and meaning without remembering the mnemonic that got me there.
For some reason, it often takes me a lot longer to memorize verbs that use kunyomi even though I make mnemonics for those as well.
you don’t incur scratches if your skin is covered by cloth. or so. maybe not quite as entertaining as the penguin story with the molten skin, but hey, we can only do our best.
I use the mnemonics at the begining of learning a kanji, but when the kanji sticks in my head I stop using the mnemonics and they end fading out of my memory.
