It could be you just haven’t found yet the learning routine that works for you.
There is one thing you may try. After doing lessons there is a summary page that lists the items you have just learned. You go over these items one by one and recite aloud readings and meanings. Then you move the mouse over the item to reveal the correct answer. This procedure will help cement the lessons in memory.
After reviews you could do the same thing with the items you have failed in the review summary page. This will accelerate your learning of failed items.
Finally you may use the Item Inspector and Leech Trainer scripts to practice your leeches, that is the items that give you trouble in reviews.
I’m just working through level 4, so I don’t have hands on proof of this claim from inside WK, but it’s consistent with my experience already.
A thing I personally don’t like about WK is that it sometimes teaches an onyomi a significant amount of time before it teaches a word that uses that onyomi. Sometimes this is fine, if the mnemonic resonates well with you, but I find if a mnemonic doesn’t resonate with me then I would rather drill a vocab word, even if I don’t learn all the kanji in the word. (Thankfully I can use WK to do this by just clicking the vocab links in the lesson, or even just going to the kanji’s page and clicking on some vocab words.)
As an example from my current level, 世. I don’t really resonate very well with WK’s “protect the world with your saber” mnemonic. But I know the word 世界 (せかい）already, even though I don’t know that second kanji. So if I can remember 世 as “world” then I can refer to せかい in my mind to have a lead for the reading of 世.
It’s not the best example but hopefully it got the point across.
That’s pretty much how I learn the kanji readings as well. Especially, since not all of them are on’yomi. I look at the future vocab, learn the readings and have a context ready for the kanji. For some of them I create my own mnemonics, like for 星 and 里.
@Something1343 I know it might be hard at the beginning, but if you keep on going and don’t get discouraged, you’ll get far .
Since you mentioned pronunciation, is your echoic or visual memory stronger? If the former, it’s a good idea to expose yourself to the sounds a lot by watching anime and/or listening to songs where the pronunciation is sometimes really off. Hip hop (often clipped words) and probably regular pop songs or ballads (more evenly spaced pronunciation) might be good. And practice!
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