this site beats that book, hands down.

I just think it's odd they use romaji.  I mean, someone is going to spend years to master kanji, but they can't bother spending a couple weeks to learn kana?

Also, a huge pet peeve of mine is when people write things in romaji and don't bother to differentiate between おお and おう

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alyks, you are so confident about your method. I read about it before, but honestly, I didn't understand how it works.

Can you explain why is it better than Heisig? and what should I expect after using it?

Is it for memorizing the readings of kanji, the meanings, or both?

I'm already doing something a lot like this, and it works very well. Similar to movie method but I dont' use movies, maybe closer to Kanjitown but they are not all places (most are movie/comic/anime/random characters), I only tie together kanji that I have difficulty remembering on their own. The examples above are similar to mine:

包　ホウ Mother ******* snakes are wrapped up in this mother ******* plane's cargo HOLD.

泡　ホウ Water (in some kind of plastic container) is wrapped up in bubble tape in the cargo HOLD.

飽　ホウ　Food that will leave you sated is wrapped up in the cargo HOLD.

砲　ホウ　Stone cannon balls are shrink wrapped with the cannon in the cargo HOLD.

There are so many things wrapped up in that god damned cargo hold. Cargo hold has a significant meaning for me because I work in the cargo hold of passenger planes. So I use it to store all the ホウ kanji. I have a lot of stories that don't make sense, but if I remember them I don't change them. for example:

既　キ　Batman (played by Michael KI-ton) was previously known as the Silver Waitress, but he decided to change his costume because it was a little ridiculous.

or it becomes really out there when they have a lot of on-readings:

納　ナツ・ナ・ナン・トウ・ノウ　Spiderman goes inside a Knott's Berry Farm in a settlement in Nara with a Nanny of a giant red Toad to see a Noh Play.

mentat_kgs wrote:

Uhm, for multiple readings, I do multiple stories.

I was referring to the first post.

What is the purpose of being able to list multiple readings of a kanji?

I personally don't think Kanji Mnemonics is anywhere *near* as good as KanjiHanzi.

The book looks like a merger of 3 existing books. I wonder when it was published? And the author? The only Dr. Robert P. Bodnaryk in Canada Google came up with is a senior bug scientist. Maybe its a side gig

Nukemarine: Perhaps you don't have to burden yourself with your own generosity this time I get the sense these memory techniques work best if people concoct their own schemes. You know... by the time you finish manipulating and placing all the pieces, you hardly need to rely on the scheme anymore.

vgambit:  *nice* ;-)

^ I don't. I make a separate card for Kanji compounds (so I don't fail them while reviewing sentences, double exposure, saves a lot of time - reviewing a kanji compound takes 5 seconds at most).

Thora, I'm doing it for myself and am just going to post the results. While few of us will be starting Kanji with the Movie Method, I'm sure many of us might try the Movie Method even after finishing via RTK. In that, maybe how one person did it can get the ball rolling for others.

Or I fall on my face, since I'm only 400 kanji in after week. That's pretty slow.

Fabrice, I remember KanjiCan had mnemonics for onyomi, but I never used them myself. Were those the type of mnemonics you were talking about?

Me three. I don't bother with mnemonics. I'm lazy, so I let repetition do the trick, and if I have problems remembering, then I just add extra sentences, and that usually does it. I follow that up with lots of reading/listening in Japanese, too, so I'll oftentimes catch whatever it was I was studying "in the wild" for further reinforcement. Like I've said before, my long-term rate is right around 96%, so it's not worth the extra effort to get 1-2 more percent. If I was having problems, or my rate was much lower, then yes, I would consider something like mnemonics.

alyks wrote:

ahibba wrote:

alyks, you are so confident about your method. I read about it before, but honestly, I didn't understand how it works.

Can you explain why is it better than Heisig? and what should I expect after using it?

Is it for memorizing the readings of kanji, the meanings, or both?

Yeah, I am confident about it. I learned how to write the kanji and onyomi for each kanji at the same time for little extra effort. Read the site.

What to expect after using it? If you start learning Japanese by using the Movie Method to learn on readings, you will "be able to read full blown novels after just 4 months". Read the site.