From a complete beginners perspective

[kevin]

I posted a new thread which has a proposal for splitting our mnemonics into meaning and pronunciation mnemonics for characters.

I’d love it if those who participated in this thread can give their thoughts over there!

Mnemonic improvements PROPOSAL!

TL;DR - we want to make some mnemonic changes for characters and want to know your thoughts on it before proceeding. A common point of feedback we have gotten is that our current mnemonics are a bit hard to process. Current mnemonic approach To illustrate, let’s go over the mnemonic for 敵 from our traditional course. It is pronounced dí and means “enemy”. [di-] Diddy Kong is [2] inside the living room of the [-_] house, trying to dodge the crazy 攵 foreman’s attacks. The 攵 foreman, his 敵 enem…

Of course, our new approach doesn’t address all of the mnemonic feedback in this thread, but we think it is a step in a right direction for most folks and want to confirm that others feel the same before proceeding.