Does anyone else find the premade mnemonics useless? I often find they are random, convoluted, far too long and don’t particularly connect together. Pretty much 99% of the time I don’t find them useful and resort to my own one. For example the Kanji 止: Reading Mnemonic: When we need to remember th…

The purpose of mnemonics isn’t for them to be remembered for years, although that might happen incidentally for certain people. The purpose is to ease the transition from knowing nothing to knowing the info without an aid. I don’t think I ever thought of a mnemonic during a burn review.

This is true, however some mnemonics do tend to stay with me… :durtle: (For example, I was able to recall some tofugu’s hiragana mnemonics a year after I learned to read the syllabary :slight_smile:)

Personally, I like WK because it has helped me to make a habit out of learning kanji. Additionally, I find the example sentences and the audio files accompanying the vocabulary helpful. Also, the pacing and the distribution of the characters per level are better when compared to the kanji Anki decks…

I don’t mean to come off as saying that people should quit WK – far from it. In fact I agree with all you wrote and then some! WK does a lot of things right – it’s just that I also think that WK usage can greatly be supplemented by other resources. Transitivity rules, mnemonics, and some parts of sp…

The ones that require some knowledge on a specific person I also agree are pretty bad, and not memorable, however others with stupid and wierd ways to explain a meaning often sticks, but the goal is always to stop needing to think of that silly memory object, and instead just find the word and spell…

Also what this guy said… im lvl 2 and I find myself skipping a lot of Mnemonics… usually give it a read over but im finding more and more kanji and vocab where the mnemonic doesn’t help me even once… thank goodness too cuz I want to learn a little faster than I currently am xD

I always read the mnemonic 98% of the time because if you visualize the story more vividly and crazier things happen then you can remember the word better. Also I think the stories are hilarious, including the example sentences. The last one for 正直 (honest) was “I need to be honest all the time be…

I don’t start with the mnemonics. Most often the meaning and readings just stick in my mind on my first read. But when they don’t, I look at the mnemonics. I know they’re long and often a long shot from being helpful but sometimes they’re good.

Yes, I do find a lot of the mnemonics a bit useless, sometimes they’re just a string of nonsense like ‘if you put a lid on your forehead and then put your legs in your mouth then everything will become clear’. On the other hand, some of them I do find work pretty well though. The thing is, people …

Mnemonics are often Useless - Need simplifying

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anon38003452 June 26, 2018, 8:33am 28

I still do not know who Charlie Sheen is

But, as per We are not all American - #88 by koichi , this is going to change!

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