I did WaniKani up until level 5, but gave up because many of the mnemonics were too hard to remember. I wound up with huge piles of cards that simply would not stick, due to mnemonics that did not make sense to me. I’ve done a little practice on Kanji Koohii, and it’s night and day. The community-s…

Disagree Mnemonics alone is not the only reason why I use wanikani. Also it’s nice to have a suggestion to jump off of and connect it to something meaningful to me.

[image] jamielin: A part of it is because many words use fancy terms instead of a basic term such as 逮 (apprehend). I need to look at a dictionary and see that it’s “arrest.” Why not use “arrest” instead. Then I found that it uses the vocab 逮捕 “arrest” and ironically uses “apprehension” as the a…

I don’t have any real examples to show here, but what I think the WK team is trying to do with their “fancy” or “complicated” glosses here is to restrict the scope of the meaning. If you look in RTK or any other kanji book, you will find that it has different English glosses for many kanji, simply b…

Of the examples given by rodarmor I preferred the wanikani story. Maybe its just because I am used to the pattern of building mnemonic from radical. It works quite well :slight_smile:

[image] plantron: The best mnemonics are the ones that work for both meaning and reading, e.g.: [image] [image] This is a really good one! :slight_smile: [image] jamielin: A part of it is because many words use fancy terms instead of a basic term such as 逮 (apprehend). I need to look…

[image] ekg: Since there are over 8000 items on items, there are bound to be hit and miss mnemonics. Well, I’ll just go out on a limb and say that the biggest part of the mnemonics on WK are not actually good and it actually gets worse after the first couple of levels. Just IMHO of course. F…

[image] Fryie: For me, it often works well to also associate the sound of a vocab with its meaning directly instead of only going through the individual Kanji’s meaning. Interesting! Could it be that you have a strong echoic memory? I wrote about something similar here: Trouble remembering m…

AndyMender: Could it be that you have a strong echoic memory? Hm, maybe. But on the other hand I think it’s proven nowadays that the more different kinds of connections (auditory, visual, etc.) you form to a new concept, the easier it will be for you to retain it. Also, I know some other l…

I strongly agree, and after about level 20 or so I started just opening kanji koohii and learning the top mnemonics from there. I still love Wanikani for a plethora of reasons, including their mnemonics for learning the common readings of kanji and vocab, but as you pointed out, too often the mnemo…

[image] Nemuitanuki: Would be nice to have a thread dedicated to “this word is giving me trouble hellllpppppp” Oh, this idea I really like. With a nice index it might work. There’s been plenty mnemonics sharing already here in the forums. Making it more organized would make it easier to othe…

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WeebPotato August 16, 2021, 4:30pm 22

Interesting! Could it be that you have a strong echoic memory?

I wrote about something similar here: Trouble remembering meaning AND reading? - #11 by iinchou

Since complaining about mnemonics is the new 河豚

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