I print off both items in a large font in Word. When I stare at them side by side, the difference becomes clearer for me. Then I tend to confuse them less often.
I will also make up my own mnemonics.
For example, force and hot used to kill me. After I printed them off, I saw the difference. Now I never miss them because hot has flames under it making it hot.
You’ve already done 30 levels of WaniKani, and I think it’s something to be proud of. I have just started and I am already suffering with this, and I know that it does not matter what my percentage is if I end up giving up later. My challenge is to keep moving forward, not my record. Maybe you can see it that way too
Here’s my takeaway: I’ve failed over 14,000 times. But I’m still here.
Also, I’m a lot more permissive with using the ability to mark an item as correct after reviewing. Before, if it was “explode” and I put “explosion”, I’d take the hit. But after I started reading, I’ve realized that those distinctions will be available in context.
I think the problem I’m having is Kanji that have very few vocab. For example, 逮 only has two and one of them is a する verb, so I’ve got 逮 on my leech list since I’ve burned the vocab and I forget when it comes up.
Not to mention the fact that it seems like the more Kanji I learn, the more I confuse them with earlier Kanji, lol.
You’re looking good so far though.
Haha, yeah, you’ll probably overtake me at some point. I’m comfortable with my 10-11 days per level pace.
Yeah. I also find it harder to deal with the kanji, on their own and with more stuff to confuse them with now than before. I’m probably relying a bit too much on context as it stand for meaning and reading (which works fine when reading, but not when WK reviewing) - darn! But, I’m trying to work a bit harder on my leeches now. I don’t wanna drag them around to the very end. ;>_>
I don’t think it’s that relevant since the more mistakes you make, the better you’ll learn something (it’s negative reinforcement). The only downside is that it takes longer.