I don’t readily think of “kawa” from the word “cow”
Instead, I imagine the Kawasaki corporation having a big factory and dumping all of its pollution in the river. This makes it easy for me.
Sorry if anyone here works for Kawasaki, no insult intended 
I mean all industries dump pollutants into rivers, so I don’t think that’s a stretch. And as for mnemonics, you can and should use the ones you’re most comfortable with ^-^ WK’s mnemonics are just one of the many possibilities.
すごい！ありがとうございます！
I did the same. I mean Kawasaki fits perfectly and can be used for future mnemonics. For the life of me I don;t get the connection with cow… what accent is that???
You should look up the kanji for Kawasaki. 
It’s not meant to be exactly the same sound. It’s just meant to be a memory trigger. Just like how ‘two’ is used often as mnemonic for a つ reading even though they don’t sound the same.
Awesome alternative! I’m happy I just burned the Kanji this week but now I am waiting for the vocab!
I’ve always used…
yeah, I changed that one too 
TBH some of the WK mnemonics set me up to fail in that regard. To each their own though… as long as it works.
I am a cow, and I’m insulted that you don’t use me as mnemonic.
I’m a Skip Beat fan so even if 川 wasn’t incredibly easy for me to remember I can’t help but always think of this. Even if it’s not really a mnemonic it just sticks out in my mind and all I really need to remember is かわ <D
I use “Car Wash” for “kawa”
You wash your car by driving it through a river?
Only in the kani realm
In Norwegian, to “kave” is the motions you do when you’re panic-ing in water. Like if you accidentally fell into a river you would “kave” for a bit before beginning to swim / float. In past tense “kave” turns to “kava”, which is pronounced like the Japanese “Kawa” (At least in my dialect).
How to learn Japanese:
For some reason, the “kawa” pronunciations in my head all turn into “Kawa kawa kawa kawa Kawa Chameleon~” which is. Not exactly how the song goes, but at least I can easily think of chameleons chilling by the river.
…you come and go (to the river), you come and go (to the river)… 
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