[Capture] Seriously though, how would I know what a Shih tzu is. How often does this happen to you? I can’t be the only one!

It’s a dog breed. I feel like most people would have heard of it, even if they maybe can’t remember exactly what they look like. Not a dog person?

My dog Fonzi was a shih-tzu terrier poodle. Shittier Poo :slight_smile:

I haven’t laughed this much at a WK forum post in a little while :joy: But yeah it’s just a dog breed with a name with the misfortune of sounding a lot like a certain English swear word. I think the reading mnemonic actually gets the breed’s pronunciation right, since it’s pronounced like it’s writ…

I’ve had my moments of seeing things in mnemonics that I’m not familiar with, namely pop culture things like the names of actors, fictional characters, etc. that just make me go “wha?”

Only reason I know what a shih tzu is is because my parents had one lol. There are several words I’ve had to look up, especially since English is my second language there are certain words I still need to double check to make sure I understand them properly. Can make some mnemonics extra hard to r…

The pop culture stuff used to be way worse before the mnemonics were updated. Lots of one’s about Koichi’s favorite actors and musicians that he just had a thing for. I had to look most of them up, and I still didn’t get the jokes.

[image] Leebo: (at least to most English speakers, because, well, it kind of sounds like “s***”) A guy went to a zoo, but there was only a single animal there, a dog. It was a shih tsu.

Yeah there have been a couple of kanji that took some extra time to memorize because I had to work on understanding the mnemonic first. Few examples that come to mind is 丸 and 日. Mnemonic for 丸 being to remember a viral cat named Maru (まる) curled up in a circle, and the mnemonic for 日 being to reme…

For me it was geoduck in WK, never heard of it, but nothing like a google image search to find out what it was. vocab depends on people’s immersion even in their native language here you will see sometimes people complaining about vocab related to baseball, since they dont like the sport, they thi…

I owned a Shih Tzu so this was a easy one for me.

May have lost my mind a little here

WaniKani

UInt2048 August 6, 2022, 10:53am 14

There’s a whole thread about that! Even native speakers wind up learning words! I agree with post-Overhaul being better on the culture side, but there are still some words the mnemonics haven’t been helpful for (憩う and 塊魂 recent examples for me)

Topic		Replies	Views
Cultural mnemonics Feedback	49	1837	July 5, 2021
Lazy Mnemonics WaniKani	49	2245	February 10, 2020
Non native speakers WaniKani	93	6331	February 27, 2018
Bad Mnemonics Feedback	105	6054	January 29, 2022
Alternative mnemonics WaniKani	7	803	September 16, 2019

May have lost my mind a little here

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