It’s more work than using pre-packaged mnemonics, but it’s better work with more lasting effects.ĭoing RTK is like getting the feel and structure of kanji, as a system, pre-installed into your brain before diving in to fill out readings and vocab. The radicals have vivid imagery based on my life, so I recall them even now, years later. It requires you, more or less, to build mnemonics from your own imagery. RTK is helping me do WK very fast because I can safely ignore WK’s mnemonics entirely. Comparing the two, I think RTK is perfectly structured, whereas WK is all over the place, though it’s ultimately useful enough that I’m committed to it now to refresh & fill in the gaps in my kanji knowledge. I completed RTK (vol 1) about 15 years ago when I lived in Japan, and then I left Japan and lots and lots of life got in the way so I am now finishing up kanji readings & vocab with WK. I just wouldn’t recommend choosing RTK as a “quicker” method, but instead because it works better for your personal learning style. (Both because the way to get from individual meanings to compound meanings is not always obvious, and because without a REALLY solid grammar and non-kanji vocab knowledge, you can’t get your reading up and running quickly enough to practice all that knowledge as quickly as RTK tries to teach it.) Of course, some people find RTK super helpful, so it’s a matter of taste, background, personal learning style, etc. And knowing single (sometimes odd) meanings for 2000 kanji doesn’t get you very far very fast if you don’t know how those kanji function in compounds. Of course you’ll learn kanji more slowly if you’re learning the meaning and reading (and vocab) together, but for some/many (?) of us here, doing all the pieces together helps it stick a lot better. (Meaning mnemonics are actually almost never used in learning vocab, though.) The more over-the-top the mnemonic is, the more the item will stick in your memory.Actually, ignoring the WK mnemonic would be problematic because almost always the story told to help remember the meaning connects or leads to the story to remember the reading. With these and more, there’s no shortage of humorous stories fashioned just like the one above. Genius! Many of WaniKani's references nod to easily remembered people, places and pop culture powerhouses. If you wish to remain a resident of the house, you must capture Chewbacca. Your horse master collects rare creatures, and Chewbacca is his latest desire. To prove yourself a worthy resident of the horse master’s house, you must capture Chewbacca (ちゅう = chu, the kanji's on-yomi). How did this horse become your master? Those aren’t questions a resident should ask! Know your place, resident! Below are the two mnemonics that you will see:Ī horse is your master and you are merely a resident in his house. When learning this kanji, you will have already been taught the radicals, which are 馬 (horse) + 主 (master). The mnemonics employed are very creative, and contain enough wacky humor for the item to remain in your head indefinitely.Įach Kanji has two mnemonics: one for the meaning and one for the reading. Herein lies one of Wanikani’s major draws. Every new item uses a mnemonic to help you remember.
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