Forgetting the mnemonics whilst remembering the reading / meaning

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Linking this thread since it’s relevant, and there’s some good discussion on there about this:

My problem with mnemonics...(thoughts please?)

So I’ve been using WaniKani a couple weeks now. I wanted to give it a bit of a test run before making a post like this, so that I wasn’t just speculating about its effectiveness. I have a bit of an issue with the mnemonics strategy that I’d really like people’s thoughts on. First off, I can’t deny that it works. Really well. Even though I find myself cringing at most of them, it’s that emotional response that helps me remember. My problem with it is just that… I don’t want to be learning kanji t…