What's the best mnemonic you've come up with?

Ha Ha, nice. I’ll never forget that one now.

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Hope that one works better for me!

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This one is actually compliments of the show Rick and Morty

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holy crap how did i never notice that

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I saw it after doing the lesson which introduced 弱い 「よわい」and that Easter egg cracked me up, making it a perfect visual mnemonic for me.

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I used that one too!

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I use the sheep one too! “You won’t find many sheep in the city” :slightly_smiling_face:

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I didn’t make a sentence for this one but I used the same image/character too!

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右 - a man doing a Nazi salute over a wooden desk (right)
左 - A radical leftist, which is just the same except everybody is poor (left)

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That one will stick for sure :wink: Welcome to the forums!

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(Sorry in advance for the formatting cuz I’m using my thumbs to type this out and can’t get the no spoilers feature to work)

集 - (collect) a turkey is collecting trees to make shoes (しゅう), because it is a cobbler, and its shoe shop is called the “Gobble Cobble.”

習う - (to learn) Inuyasha needs to learn how to use the Tetsaiga so he can fight Naraku (ならう).

病む - (to be sick) when a cow is sick, it yartzes and moos (やむ).

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YES INUYASHA! One of my favourites, if not favourite of all time. I’m stealing that mnemonic from you for sure

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I felt very clever when I realized this:

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I love the spool table imagery!
Also Hidari has a sideways H holding it up.

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For 転がる, to roll, I imagine a giant Koroke (ころ) rolling down the mountain.
And then I imagine eating the giant Koroke once it’s done rolling, it’s delicous :drooling_face:
Damn this mnemonic makes me hungry :joy:

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