掲示板 Forums - Remembering Adjectives is Hard T~T

Hey everyone, I have come to the forum to share some woes, and ask for some advice. I'm working on vocabulary building and have a lot of adjectives in my Renshuu circulation right now, but I just can't seem to make any progress with remembering them, no matter how regularly I do my reviews. That they almost all end with the same い sound just jumbles them up in my head. I don't have this problem with nouns or even verbs so much because there's enough differences, but adjective man..... T.T

Anyone have any advice or tricks that worked for them with building and actually remembering vocabulary, in particular one that have similar sounds or patterns to them?

Thank you. ^^

I probably will do that as you say if this gets no traction in a day or two, but because I don't really have discord or ever use it (I'm not a fan of the massive chat room format) I figured I'd try here first. ^^;

In the beginning, your brain doesn't know which parts of the language matter and which parts it should ignore. Remember that we learn language by imitating other people, so listen and repeat as much as possible.

If you find that you are hung up on the final i, try changing it to something else like ku. This may mean skipping ahead and learning new forms before they are introduced in your textbook, but it will break the bad association that your brain has formed.

So sorry I haven't replied until just now, the holidays are such a crazy time I'm just getting my feet back under me. ^^;
Thank you so much everyone for your lovely suggestions. I think they're going to help a lot.

@Anonymous123 I have actually already been doing what you suggested a little. I'm only on WaniKani level 2 in Kanji so I don't know much but when I encounter a word of almost any kind that I do know the Kanji for I find it a lot easier to translate the meaning. Doesn't help a ton with remembering the actual pronunciation of the word because remembering Onyomi and kunyomi, and when to use which, is still tough for me, but it is a good step forward and a big leap for my goal of being able to read Japanese media.

@ポールおじちゃん Thank you so much for this suggestion. Funny enough the formal course I'm doing is the Human Japanese program and they start you on polite "ます" form verbs and I have a lot easier time remembering them for some reason. So I've been taking your suggestion and looking at the conjugation options here on Renshuu with my problem words in particular and either picking out the stem or making note of a polite form and it does seem to help with remembering it better. ありがとうございます🙏

@TSEのサマンサ This is a fantastic suggestion, and would be great for my vocab retention all around. Thank you! Might be a little difficult at first with a 2 year old in the house, she'll think the notes are hers to take, but I'll just have to get creative and find a more toddler proof way to label is all. It's the never ending battle of wits between child and parent. XD

Hello guys, i just want to tell you how to memorizing,its super easy, I have studied a lot in books and podcast how to memorize from people who memorize a lot of numbers, names, etc and this are the keys, I hope it can help*(^O^)*

-First: absurd, we remember things that are absurd because it capts our attention. if you want to remember a word just ask yourself: what does it sound like? And then you can associate it making an absurd story

For example: 言う(いう) What does it sounds like? sounds like you, so you can imagine a story when you cant talk/ say something and your favourite YOUtuber come to your home and you're so excited, you just want to say to him/her a lot but you can talk!

-loci method

A lot of time ago, humans needed to remember important places like where to feed, where was their home, where to hunt and its one of the most powerful keys to memorize something

Example: imagine a place that you know so well, then you can imagine key points of what you want to remember, if i want to remember an い adjective i can use something that starts by い or sound like an い and put it in that place: Im in the kitchen and i see a 犬 いぬ with a black HAT preparing food and the kitchen its so hot 熱い (atsui sounds like hat and sui maybe like sushi?) and suddenly flying sushis come to your mouth

And a tip! I recomend you to learn first how to talk, better than writing because this is how childrens learn their native language and its the easiest way

I'm sorry for the english mistakes, i'm doing my best to explain you in a different language ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

This is very helpful indeed! Funny enough むずかしい is one of the trouble words for me, your phonetic association story is a great idea and I love the one you came up with. And if stuck with you for so long that definitely is a good mnemonic indeed. It looks like it could be a neat way to reinforce vocab you have less trouble with too if you work that into your mnemonic story.
ありがとうございます。^🙏^

Oh very coo!! I look forward to using it when it's out. Thanks so much for all you do, マイコー. どうもありがとうございます。 ^w^

You should probably have a kanji schedule on your dashboard. If not, I'd go to the "manage your schedules" link (just below the schedules) and see if you have one waiting for you in there. There should be a good schedule for you to follow :)

Thnx. Is WaniKani on Android? If not, any recommendations?