Mnemonics for vocabulary words.

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1. it’s best to create your own mnemonics. you’ll end up having a harder time memorizing mnemonics when you could’ve just memorized the words instead.

2. I make a lot of these myself

   there is probably a market-gap for this

   someone might make some cash if they are witty and easy to remember, however, that is easier said than done

3. Wanikani teaches vocab with mnemonics, but you can also just think of some of your own. The crazier the more memorable

4. I know this is very stackoverflow of me to say but unless it’s like the first 100 words I wouldn’t touch mnemonics with a stick

   you might as well just look them up in a dictionary when you’d use a mnemonic because both are too slow, it’s only after repetition that they stick and you know it quickly without having to think too hard about it

5. The problem with mnemonics for vocab, rather than, say, Kanji, is that you have trouble with matching starting points enough to build a community.

   It is definitely needed, and if someone spent the time Fabrice spent in making the backend he did for kanji.koohii.com it could be useful.

   But the backend would be a nightmare, as there are multiple ways to get to a vocab word (romaji, kana, kanji).

   What ends up working as mnemonic is actually knowing enough Kanji so that new words can be written in Kanji in your head, but that’s at the far end of the road for someone trying remember atsumeru.

6. If you’re going around the mnemonics route then youre just playing around with languages.