Have you already memorized hiragana? IMO that’s the more important of the two if you’re only going to get one of them.
No don’t do that
I don’t think that’s necessary. Kana study takes like 3 weeks. Ideally you’d learn to read both until you can reliably identify each one slowly. After that, you naturally pick up speed during your grammar or kanji studies.
If you just learned hiragana and are just starting katakana, practice a little bit of hiragana while learning katakana so you don’t forget what you just crammed.
Personally I’ve learned hiragana from practicing here and there. But mainly through vocabulary and reading. So as a personal experience, study both at the same time. Since you’re gonna run into hiragana anyway
English loanwords are typically written in katakana, so if you want to be able to read and understand some Japanese ASAP, learn katakana first. That said, in the end it’s a little like trying to decide whether to put on your left shoe or your right shoe first.
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Have you already memorized hiragana? IMO that’s the more important of the two if you’re only going to get one of them.
No don’t do that
I don’t think that’s necessary. Kana study takes like 3 weeks. Ideally you’d learn to read both until you can reliably identify each one slowly. After that, you naturally pick up speed during your grammar or kanji studies.
If you just learned hiragana and are just starting katakana, practice a little bit of hiragana while learning katakana so you don’t forget what you just crammed.
Personally I’ve learned hiragana from practicing here and there. But mainly through vocabulary and reading. So as a personal experience, study both at the same time. Since you’re gonna run into hiragana anyway
English loanwords are typically written in katakana, so if you want to be able to read and understand some Japanese ASAP, learn katakana first. That said, in the end it’s a little like trying to decide whether to put on your left shoe or your right shoe first.