I have recently started Hiragana for Japanese and got a book. Im really struggling right now with the progress since usually i have 20 mins right when i wake up and can only do 3 letters its around 20 times writing it. I do spend 40 mins doing audio practice alongside writing. Would it be better spent if learned to use a keyboard and not waste time writing. I am dyslexic so it takes me a lot longer to write. Any tips or suggestions i will likely never write by hand. Also, this is my 3rd language outside school the only one not using my native alphabe.
Other languages im learning Tagalog and Spanish both hr day.
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the more senses you engage, the stronger memories become. so if you engage touch by writing things, it is more effective. but it’s not 100% necessary. try studying with and without it, a week on a week off, or something, and measure how much it helps, and see. adjusting your studying to your own needs over time is it’s own skill worthy of practice.
Kanji is a bit tricky if you learn it only typing on keyboard, mainly because there are many kanjis that looks really similar, at least for me, writing them down makes me understand how one is different from another. Regarding to kana, I think it does not matter, as you will see them everywhere.
You don’t need to be obsessed about learning a language *that* fast, just enjoy the process and be friendly about how often you forget this and that.
Progress is something that takes a really long time to really notice it. If you want to see how far you are at just take simpler and simpler sentences and soon you will see, you will getting better and better.
I mixed. I enjoyed it. I’m still doing it by the way 😁
But to start really enjoying it, I bought an ebook of a calligraphy teacher for N5 Kanjis & Kanas, a kanji training notebook, and a nice pen (Tombow with a soft pen). So when I started, I had material to enjoy it as an activity on its own, learn origins of kanjis, work on handwriting proportions to make them fancy, etc…
i recommend getting a premade anki deck for hiragana / katakana. I got lazy writing them and focused on flash cards.