Does anyone else have some trouble getting the mnemonics to stick sometimes? I feel like I can imagine them so vividly when I learn a character but then when I go to review it, it all falls out of my head.
If anyone has any tips for making the mnemonics stick better, I am open to any suggestions. Thanks!
Sex and violence. Itās annoying but a memory that generates and emotional response stays around longer, and humans are just tuned so that sex and violence generate bigger responses so theyāre just flat out more memorable (anger and disgust are great ones too). Obviously the HH team canāt put super violent/lewd mnemonics as the default ones, but there isnāt anything stopping you re-writing your own in the Your Notes section. Many of the default ones are quite easy to turn - e.g. ę has Walter White in a basement with a saw ā¦ å has Zelda in a bathroom with a rack ā¦ I donāt want to get banned so Iāll leave it to the reader to imagine how those might be turned violent or dirty but itās often not hard and annoyingly effective. The mnemonic I remember the most are the ones I hate - if you can get a āThis is so horrible, Iām a bad person for thinking of thisā reaction, youāll remember it for a LOOOOONG time lol.
The other thing to remember is that in my experience the mnemonics are just a crutch to kick start build a web of memories around them. Remembering the mnemonic isnāt the goal, itās a handy step on the way TO the goal. I might know ~650 characters but Iāll only remember the mnemonics for like 20-30 of them, 50 at a stretch. The others I just know the character itself. The amount of mnemonics I know doesnāt really change as I progress either - old ones fade as the character get cemented and I donāt need the mnemonic for it any more, then new mnemonics show up for new characters. As long as youāre using these characters by doing a bunch of reading outside HH, then you just start to know them without requiring the mnemonics, so the fact the mnemonics fade over time isnāt a big deal.
Sometimes feels to me like mnemonics are not a fit for everyone either, i hear some folks saying they can learn tons of characters, but my imagination skills really only go so far. I had struggles with keeping my mnmonics consistent, my memory places are not very vivid, and they take on various forms. I felt like scaling this up to thousands would leave me very confuses place. So I have been using image generators to persist a menmonic such that if i do forget it i have a source of reference to fall back to. But it does remove the very imporant personal emotional link @kaysik talks about. But in his response I tend to stick to the stories in the program because I dont want to deviate to much.
I suppose the endgoal is to aim for forgetting mnmonics because you really want the meaning to be in long term memory!
[sh-] Shrek is in [1] front of the [-(e)ng] English manor running around and shouting with a loud 声 voice so one of the English 士 soldiers standing guard outside holding the manor å°ø flag comes over and scolds him in a stern 声 voice for being an uncivilized ogre.
