で is either the general location in which an action occurs, or a means by which something occurs
に is usually directional but it’s also used in particular ways with particular verbs, so you just need to learn the usage patterns as you learn new words… for example, in english we sometimes have two targets/objects for a verb, like “i taught john baseball”. the verb “to teach” is acting directly on both jon and baseball in different ways. in japanese these are often differentiated by being tagged with を and に, rather than being ordered like in english: ジョーンに野球を教えた
へ means in the general direction of and is the least common of the above, not many verbs specifically utilize this
when you say “self-learning”, i hope you’re following something ordered and structured, right? genki, tae kim, something? because randomly bumping into grammar points gets unnecessarily frustrating, when structured educational material orders things so that you can learn one thing at a time without crashing into a bunch of brick walls at once
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I found this video helpful: https://youtu.be/dExn1AygbpQ
で is either the general location in which an action occurs, or a means by which something occurs
に is usually directional but it’s also used in particular ways with particular verbs, so you just need to learn the usage patterns as you learn new words… for example, in english we sometimes have two targets/objects for a verb, like “i taught john baseball”. the verb “to teach” is acting directly on both jon and baseball in different ways. in japanese these are often differentiated by being tagged with を and に, rather than being ordered like in english: ジョーンに野球を教えた
へ means in the general direction of and is the least common of the above, not many verbs specifically utilize this
when you say “self-learning”, i hope you’re following something ordered and structured, right? genki, tae kim, something? because randomly bumping into grammar points gets unnecessarily frustrating, when structured educational material orders things so that you can learn one thing at a time without crashing into a bunch of brick walls at once