Victory Manual

年輪。全てを支配したいサウロンを抵抗するため、年輪のいっぱいエント（木人間）がホビットを手伝った！
多数決。多数決原理がないと、民主主義は無理。
夜明け。夜明け明けましておめでとう。
要点。議院の議員は自分の声があまりにも好きで、長いスピーチが終了しても、最後に要点に触れなかった！(Probably grammatically dubious)
演ずる。1万円をもらうため、演ずる。
演ずる alternate version featuring 親父ギャグ: 演ずる to make えんず meet.
貴族。寂しい貴族は帰属意識がない。かわいいそう。
途端。彼は失業して、塗炭の苦しみを感じた途端に宝くじがあたった！（よかったね）
かつて。かつてかつおを勝手に食った。
からかう。どうして新しい服を買うって、友達が僕のスタイルをからかうから買う。
雇う。野党が夜盗を雇う。（これは全然正当の宣伝ではないよ！ただの記憶術だ。）

幹事の漢字はなかなかいい感じ
The executive secretary’s kanji are pretty decent.
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The kanji for ‘executive secretary’ are pretty decent.

Update: This one works,
両親の教えは良心を形成する。
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よく育つと、両親は良心になるものだ。
Does that work grammatically?
両親が良心になることは、よく育ってから。
両親の心が良心になることだ。
Which one of these works best as a mnemonic device? Is there a better way to arrange the information?

Let’s look at a few phrases that are useful when you want to get pissed in Japanese. (Here, I mean the American-English ‘pissed’ as in ‘angry’, not the British-English ‘drunk’, although it would be an interesting thing to see someone actually getting drunk on Japanese.)
よくそんなばかなことをしたもんだ！
How could you be such an idiot!
When your friend, in [...]

Yet another story of how kanji saved my life…would have sounded a lot more dramatic and probably would have been a more interesting read. But, seriously - Kanji rock. Kanji are superheroes. In fact, in the upcoming 8th season of Smallville (yeah, I watch it - What’s it to you?!), we find [...]

Sesquipedalian. I don’t think I’ll ever fall out of obsession with that word. The definition is itself. It is its own definition. There’s something so satisfying about that. But that’s not what this is about.
Sesquipedalian is far from being a common vocabulary term. The same holds true of its [...]

Let’s see what happens when I try to use 25 target vocabulary words in one short composition in an attempt to solidify the terms into my long-term memory.
Jack, our redoubtable leader
It was the accolade that Jack had been aiming for; the reason he had been so meticulous in maintaining his magnanimity. A fortuitous sequence [...]

I have the impression that most foreigners who study Japanese get frustrated by the inevitable homophones which accompany a language with so few vowels. However, I prefer to think of them as very useful tools - Mnemonic devices!
I’ll repost my most recent mixi.jp entry below as an example of this.
外国人にとって、日本語の同音異義語は、意味の誤解になる原因だと言われているが、
一方では記憶術として使えるので、便利だと思う！
「東大は学界の灯台」
日本語では分からないが、灯台は英語にするとa light houseで、船を案内する機械という意味だけではなく、「案内して、明らかにすること」という定義も持っているので、「東大は学界の灯台」といったら、「東大は学界の一流」という意味になる。
引き続き、「東大は当代の学界の灯台」もできる。

Toudai in Japanese [...]

I’ve got a goal of going through a list of 6,500+ English vocabulary terms over 261 days (comes out to about 25 words per day). Of course, this project is running parallel with Japanese studies, so my head feels like a mashed-potato-filled beach ball. The English terms themselves are in the incipient stages [...]

‘Sesquipedalian’ is a sesquipedalian term! Only the grandiloquent would use such a term, just as they use ‘grandiloquent’.