kanji

[sekiful]

I've been progressing with the first set of kanji in Wanikani.

I know all of these, I thought when they came up, pleased. No problem! Except that my complacency became an issue in seconds; it wanted me to give 'shichi' instead of 'nana', 'ku' instead of 'kyū' -- the on reading being asked for isn't the generally preferred and therefore familiar one. Oops. WK doesn't penalise you for entering kun'yomi instead of on'yomi, but if you simply can't recall the on'yomi at all then being pardoned for entering the kun'yomi is only a stay of execution. I dutifully went and re-read the lesson texts and corrected myself, and told myself to not be arrogant next time.

A note on the mnemonics: I don't think of most learning mnemonics as effective, because so many are visually based and I'm aphantastic, but the WK ones often work for me because they're narratives not visuals. Even if I'm forever going to mess up jo and jyo.

Comments

[anehan]

I remember the WK mnemonics working pretty well for me, too. I was surprised by that, because I'm not a native English speaker and usually English-based mnemonics are a bit of a hit-and-miss for me. But I suppose them being narratives actually makes it a lot easier for me to remember them. Visual mnemonics don't always work nearly as well.

[sekiful]

Interesting!

[anehan]

I have no idea why that is so. :)

But I did go back to WK after several years' break, which I have to you to thank for! ^_^