My biggest shame is getting 先生 wrong so many times… it’s probably one of the words that everyone knew even before studying japanese 
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I always forget the radical branch. That’s level 4.
Still, I feel like I’ve got things under control with leeches never above 20. 3 of the current 19 are radicals, and I don’t really care about them. There are always a few typos there as well, as I have no script to prevent that. (my keyboard double or triple registers occasionally)
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I just keep WKing my leeches…
Hopefully they’ll go away eventually…
I’m currently level 27, and I have unburned items on every level. And I started WK in Feb. 2017.
Radicals seem to be the worst - I have unburned ones on every level except for 10 and 16. My oldest kanji and vocab are on level 4 (kanji: 仕, 宝; vocab: 先々月, 写す宝, 宝石), but the treasure-related ones shouldn’t count as leeches since they were just added in December.
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Yeah, that’s a good trick. Thinking of the protruding top bit as a horn.
矢 失 also massive bugbears of mine!
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毛糸 and 羊毛 from level 5 and 6
I don’t understand why, i really dont, but for some reason i type もういと for 毛糸 and ようけ for 羊毛 whenever they reach guru 2
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You can remember by “work like a dog” not “work like a doug”. 
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Oh nice. I like it. I think I’ll use that.
Of course now I’ll somehow manage to get the mnemonic backwards. 
Who’s to say there aren’t hard-working Dougs out there?
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Necro-ing this thread with a week to spare just to say I burned 努力
Complain about your problems everyone! Sometimes that’s all you need to do (also shoutout @Liuyuan couldn’t have done it without you 
).
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Well, I have 試す from level 11 at Guru, and 倒 from level 20 at Apprentice among others (I failed it today for the second time… )
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All the way back to Level one (Stupid 八つ、and 人工 was a typo I swear)
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Ok, so here is mine. 正直. ( しょうじき = honesty)
It’s insane. I always fail the enlightened / burned stage for some reason. Sure the reading is fairly irregular, but still it’s an extremely common word. I have read it or hear it dozen and dozen of time, maybe hundred at this point, and yet when the review come, I get confused. Probably because 正 is strongly associated to せい and 直 to ちょく in my brain so it’s a “double irregular” (of course しょう is not irregular at all, it’s common, but oh well)
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I relate to this on a spiritual level. That word gave me an ungodly amount of trouble (and probably still would if I were to resurrect it lol).
My oldest leech at the moment is: 八日 (Lvl 2), for which I just failed the burn the other day for the I-don’t-know-how-manyth time. And I unlocked it in December of 2017…
For some ungodly reason I can’t ever remember if it’s ようか or よっか.
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There was good tip for this one - eight days (ようか) are longer than four days (よっか) 
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All the way back to level 4 for me 
Also just today failed 動労 again. Usually get the meaning wrong. Not this time, though. Actually switched the readings around for no reason. And on mobile, so I couldn’t double check.
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I just burned it !!
But I feel almost bad about it, because by talking about it just yesterday I kinda cheated the SRS, I’m fairly sure I will forget it again in a few month 
Edit : next one in the list of tenacious leech is 生地 (level 8), and it’s another double exceptional reading
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I just got this burn (I think) review wrong like last week haha. I remembered it was weird/some combo of き and じ but got the order wrong… then I realized the 地 reading is fairly normal, so hopefully I’ll get it right from here.
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Just try to put it into every conversation you have in Japanese from now on. As far as 口癖 go, it is not the worst!
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But how does that help? ようか and よっか are the exact same length! Both when written and said out loud.
The よううううう is longer for eight days.
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