I learned soh cah toa too! Canada in the 00s, maybe it’s a Canadian thing haha
personalized ones are cool. I’ve found the more complicated kanji can actually be a little easier because you can see all the radicals. that said, some of the radical names are a bit wild
園 — the radical inside is zombie?? what???
Nice tortie cat, OP
Oscar Has A Hatful Of Apples for sin/cos/tan?
No, just…no.
Well it’s not Koichi-level weird, to be sure.
The military was way better at um… memorable mnemonics. I can’t repeat the one for the factors in the neutron life cycle without being flagged.
I really like mnemonics for kanji, not so much for vocab. The first time I did wanikani I was using all the mnemonics, this time I am able to remember about 90% of items after the lesson by just looking at it eventhough I don’t remember any of the actual mnemonics and I haven’t been immersing in Japanese for the last 2 years, so we could say they worked. However, for the remaining items I started building my own mnemonics and I wish I did that the first time around… It just felt like such a hassle to build my own stories and I still think that, I just realized wanikani style mnemonics aren’t for me. I prefer short memorable sentences or even just scenes, which are easier for me to remember rather than memorizing yet another thing which wasn’t as efficient the first time around (I try to create a situation that I will remember like catchy jingle lyrics or a memorable/funny commercial or short video or meme, things that we usually remember without effort and often unintentionally).
yeah I find images work as well or better than the sentences. I remember 土曜日 means Saturday because 土 is a guy lying on the ground, tired after a work week
except they work Saturdays in Japan iirc so… yeah LOL
I remember from the Level 6 vocab 土星 for the planet Saturn. Saturn’s Day = Saturday 
That one actually has a decent mnemonic IMO. Ground-star, sat on, sat’urn.
nice!! didn’t even think of that
Probably something like that. I can’t remember properly, but I used to have a small cheat sheet with a triangle in my math classes and then the definitions for sin/cos/tan would somehow stick. 
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