The case against MNEMONICS when learning Japanese

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ScubaTal Bowling より:

2018年10月21日 5:15 PM

when I was learning hiragana this is how i remembered ま (ma) and ほ (ho)
Your ma (ま) is a hoe (ほ) if she dances on a stripper pole.
moyga より:

2018年10月21日 5:15 PM

So you’re not actually against mnemonics at all, you just think people should make their own ones instead of trying to force a set of ones made by someone else to stick in their minds. Kind of misleading title.
Fobulous TV より:

2018年10月21日 5:15 PM

– This is great, that is great! I have another book here… [reaches for his own book]

Me thinking: WOW GEORGE

Turns out he just wanted to see the pile of books behind it. Hahahaha I love this guy
Watchdog Man より:

2018年10月21日 5:15 PM

This is the case against BAD mnemonics when learning Japanese. You can _completely_ disregard mnemonics _entirely_ when learning the language or any language for that matter. It is how one uses mnemonics when in learning a language. It is associating the wrong graphical representation with the character’s meaning is what trips people up as what you a
pointing out.
mccheeseburger01 より:

2018年10月21日 5:15 PM

I used that book to learn hiragana and it was very helpful for me.
The use of mnemonics is only short term until you can recognise the characters without needing them.
Bro Jaxs より:

2018年10月21日 5:15 PM

they’re terrible mnemonics but there are good ones out there. Even SO, the hiragana looks like the outline of the cone for SO-ft serve ice cream, I got told that once and I’ve never forgotten.
Please don’t be put of putting them in your books because other people are lazy about it.
Kaitlyn より:

2018年10月21日 5:15 PM

mnemonics (had no idea they were called that until now lol) always seemed like a waste of time to me, when people tell me they learn kanji that way i just dont get it.
all i need to do to remember a kanji is write it out while using it in a sentence a few times, i think having that kind of context while learning really helps!
カルマ [Karma] より:

2018年10月21日 5:15 PM

There are stupid Mnemonics and good Mnemonics.
Mns are really awesome if used correctly. This ラ example is of course really bad. The good use of Mns is when you just have the primitives (like standing, tree and see) and build your own story with it. Then it will stick inside your brain. Thats why RTK is great. Okay the first 500-600 Kanji tell you stories until you will start to make own stories. That’s not so great and many of the pre made stories are hard to remember, but you can just ignore it and make your own from the start.
I know you don’t like RTK, but RTK is in fact truely great 😡
3xhearts より:

2018年10月21日 5:15 PM

I’m using that first book right now and I just ignore the mnemonics because I didn’t find them helpful at all. Much easier and practical to learn words with those kana in them. The only time I find mnemonics helpful is for memorizing lists of things that I don’t use, things that I only need to know the names of

The case against MNEMONICS when learning Japanese

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