No offense, but in the time it took you to think of this question and ask it and think about the best way to learn them, you could have probably been almost done with memorizing them all.
To answer, it doesn’t really matter. Grind it out. Took me a solid weekend to do so, one day for hiragana, another for katakana. If you wanna do both at the same time, sure. Whatever works best for you
Don’t get too fucked up about them, just go over them quickly and move on. Being good at reading them comes from reading them lots, not from memorizing them well once
Learning both within the same time period is fine
Doesn’t matter.
Hiragana then katakana is the more common order. But if you want to do them at the same time and it works for you, just do that.
Reason not to do them on the same time is that you might confuse them and accidentally mix them up. It’s takes pretty much no time to learn them, so you won’t really save much time to do them at the same time. It’s like a week or two for each set, if you combine with some basic vocab and grammar. Usually a lot quicker, like a day each of doing in isolation.
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No offense, but in the time it took you to think of this question and ask it and think about the best way to learn them, you could have probably been almost done with memorizing them all.
To answer, it doesn’t really matter. Grind it out. Took me a solid weekend to do so, one day for hiragana, another for katakana. If you wanna do both at the same time, sure. Whatever works best for you
Use the Tofugu mnemonics for [katakana](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/) and [hiragana](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/), and it won’t matter. You can learn them each in a few hours or at most a day or two.
Don’t get too fucked up about them, just go over them quickly and move on. Being good at reading them comes from reading them lots, not from memorizing them well once
Learning both within the same time period is fine
Doesn’t matter.
Hiragana then katakana is the more common order. But if you want to do them at the same time and it works for you, just do that.
Reason not to do them on the same time is that you might confuse them and accidentally mix them up. It’s takes pretty much no time to learn them, so you won’t really save much time to do them at the same time. It’s like a week or two for each set, if you combine with some basic vocab and grammar. Usually a lot quicker, like a day each of doing in isolation.