It’s common to encounter words that are harder to remember than others. Some stick with you the first moment you learn them, others take longer. Don’t worry too much. Making your own sentences using the vocab you’ve learnt helps a great deal too.

What I do with words that are giving me trouble is, I initially review them in my TextFugu vocab deck. If there’s quite a few from the same deck I have a hard time remembering, I make a a temporary new Anki deck with that same deck that’s giving me trouble, and review them by constantly hitting the soon answer. This initially drills it into my short term memory. I then take longer breaks between studying them. So I might go 10 mins, then 20, then 30, then an hour, two hours, six hours, etc. I do this until I’ve learnt every word in that deck. I then take a days break and then look at that same deck under my TextFugu vocab. Usually I’m able to recall every word.  So basically what you’re doing is using the temporary Anki deck as a physical deck where you keep going over the same words. Then you switch back to the SRS method.

Just do the best you can and keep moving. Those words are no more important than the thousands of other words you are going to need to learn.

Mnemonic everything is my advise. And the more you do so, the easier it gets.

As an example; for せいじか I imagined Seiji from Durarara as a politician. What! Seiji? (?=ka).

I also had trouble with けいさつかん. Think I used a undefined muddle of ‘K’ (like OK) ‘sats’[sic] and ‘can’. So the police officer with a satsuma for a head is like “K, I can sit down”.

The first thing that comes to mind is usually very effective… and then your stuck with it XD  Which is why buddha is a doctor specializing in the care of hos’ toes. Ho To Ke

I’m finding my self towing a bit at the moment with the nouny adverbs some are easy but other’s that have similar meanings are struggle e.g. the ones for sometime/always/generally/continously.

If I knew how to say more sentences it would probably help, for example “continously” I had the idea of the following sentence but am not sure on how to go about translating it:-

“that dog barks continously night and day”

Yeah I’m a mnemonics junky too.

As an example; for せいじか I imagined Seiji from Durarara as a politician. What! Seiji? (?=ka).

LOL, mine was similar to that.

I imagine Seji like an old wise man (sage) being Sagey.

As that’s how a politician should be like.

But in reality they aren’t, so I throw in the last Ka like you did as a question:

What!? A politician is Seiji? (?=ka).

My mate had trouble remembering which word meant drink or read, so I came up with the following:

Yomimasu = Read – Yo! Me must read!

Nomimasu = Drink – No! Me must drink!

In my brain I made it a bit absurd (thus easier to remember) by imagining the situation as a two headed Giant, where one head is responsible and the other is a slacker. ^_^

Of course as with any good mnemonics I no longer need the mnemonic as it’s been ingrained in my brain, but the mnemonics help lock it in.