I’ve been thinking of getting started woth learning Japanese recently and I finally found the right time to do it. I started with hiragana. I got down the first 5 rows of the alphabet in ~4 hours. Is this too slow or a good pace?
Edit: I’m not looking at this as a race, as someone said. I’m just asking if it is a good pace.
Currently I need to start the は/ha row.
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It’s not a race, relax.
Sounds fine. Just make sure you’re learning consistently.
Even after I had “learned” the hiragana, it still took a while before I could read/write them without thinking.
Yes that is a very good pace. You will be done with the entire table in 2-3 days and then you can start learning katakana and actual words. As long as you don’t make the mistake of spending weeks on reviewing hiragana before moving on you will do well. You will naturally get a ton of hiragana practice simply by learning vocabulary.
nothing is too slow, as long as it’s your own pace then it’s good 🙂
Whatever works for you but hiragana and katakana and a good start to learning Japanese.
Sounds fine. Personally I did both hiragana & katakana at the same time as each row of those share the same sounds – so just learned the sounds and associated each with 2 characters (much like you might learn the English alphabet’s upper & lower cases together). A lot of people seem to learn hiragana & katakana separately though – not sure why.
Although pretty easy to learn, you’ll soon forget the kana unless you practice them regularly. [Here’s some advice](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/s5mtva/comment/ht1lo0x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) I put together on learning kana (and grammar & vocab).