I’m thinking of using Duolingo exercises along with writing the characters and their meanings and sounds over tye next 2 weeks. Is that overkill or is there another way that people feel that is a much simpler way to learn them. I have grabbed Genki 1 and 2 and from what I’ve searched its best to obviously have the alphabet memorized before you start doing grammar. I’m sorry if my question is stupid or asked a ton. I’ve hated learning any second language since I was a kid. Visited Japan to travel and became engrossed with the country and culture. This is the first time I’ve had any motivation to learn a language.
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Pretty bad. It goes wayyy to slow. Best way is just to grind em out by writing em down, and after you have a grasp, testing your knowledge on realkana.com
Duolingo is a really really really really really bad app to learn Japanese. It’s full of mistakes, wrong stuff, bad pronunciation, etc. I’d recommend to stay the hell away from it as much as possible, there’s much better resources out there.
This said, if you **just** use it to learn kana I heard it’s okay… **however** I honestly don’t see the point in doing that, I’d rather not give them any business or download at all and not risk getting stuck in their dopamine-addicting ecosystem. If you want to learn and practice kana I recommend [these](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/) [two](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/) pages for hira + kata and then use something like [realkana](https://realkana.com/) to practice every day until you get them right.