What are leeches?

[Seroczynski]

I see loads of people discussing ‘leeches’, yet as I try to search for a definition I find nothing. Anyone care to explain this seemingly simple thing?

[Richard-Degenne]

You didn’t search well enough.

Leech Squashing

Recreating this topic because the Original Thread got archived. LEECH: An item in language learning that just won’t stick, and ends up wasting massive amounts of your time. 蛭 - ひる - Leech LEECH VARIETALS: Leech-tachi: That group of very similar items that you constantly confuse Leech-kun: That weird long random kunyomi that is only used for the vocab or verb version of a kanji. Leech-人: That rendaku’d-ass last kanji that you answer wrong 1 out of 7 times (is it leech-nin? leech-jin? leech-…

LEECH: An item in language learning that just won’t stick, and ends up wasting massive amounts of your time.

[Seroczynski]

Thank you!

[Richard-Degenne]

You’re welcome!

[Ryo]

Ironic. I like it (since leeches usually keep on sticking).

[jprspereira]

Ironic. I like it (since leeches usually keep on sticking).

They also suck your blood out

[TamanegiNoKame]

Picture of leeches…beware