Recreating this topic because the Original Thread got archived. LEECH: An item in language learning that just won’t stick, and ends up wasting massive amounts of your time. 蛭 - ひる - Leech LEECH VARIETALS: Leech-tachi: That group of very similar items that you constantly confuse Leech-kun: That …

[image] acm2010: You have a kanji compound (with two items*), the first on-yomi ends in つ. You can have gemination on items that don’t end in つ. く is probably the second most common. (がく＋こう＝がっこう) And there are other exceptions.

苦い（にがい）bitter 若い（わかい）young My brain likes to say it knows these things and automatically gets my fingers to type them in and smash enter. Thanks, brain. :stuck_out_tongue:

苦いにがいにくい I used to mistake these two.

Pretty much just leeches left in my apprentice bucket: [image] Die, damn you! As opposed to a rather rosey view in the late stages: [image]

I’ve had troubles with the on’yomi readings of 楽, being either らく or がく Then I accidentally noticed: がく is used for the “music” meaning らく is used for the other meanings (pleasure, comfort) I am not sure this is a 100% rule, but I have looked at many examples so far and it always worked. Anyway…

札 (さつ）礼（れい） I always get these mixed up. A note though is made of paper (wood/tree) and thanks is made at an altar (pelican in WK).

I think it would help if WK had a list of words often confused, like English text books show words that are often misspelled or sound-a-likes. The part of WK that reinforces my leeches is using English pronunciations to approximate Japanese sounds. for example using May as mnemonic for まい causes me …

When I started WK, knowing 名 was part of 名前 messed me up because I kept reading it as まえ by mistake…and it sounding close enough to めい definitely didn’t help. If I make that mistake again when it comes time to burn, I swear I’ll scream. :stuck_out_tongue:

I just had my mind blown: I was getting so annoyed about あまりありません being difficult to read that I looked up if one of these words could be written in Kanji. Yep, あまり is 余り. “Huh thats odd- NO WAIT THATS 余る !!” あまり comes from 余る :exploding_head: And that’s how I remembered the reading of 余る forever…

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hitechbunny November 11, 2017, 3:51am 328

FYI I wrote a script to help train on readings for leeches: [Unsupported] Leech training script.

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