Would have been good to study hiragana and katakana together to learn to pair them.
When studying katakana now, instead of writing romaji to associate them, just use hiragana. Will help enforce your knowledge of hiragana as well.
You’ll be fine. Make pictures out of them.
ト= to. Someone kicking their toe out
ヒ = hi. Someone waving at you
テ = te. Very similar to て
モ = mo. Very similar to も
And so on.
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you’ll get used to it just like you got used to english
my school just gave me flash cards. hiragana in the front. katakana in the back.
See the [first section of this](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/s5mtva/comment/ht1lo0x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). Learning katakana is no more difficult that learning hiragana – in fact it’s quite feasible to learn them together as the sounds are the common element – i.e. each sound is represented by 2 characters, one hiragana and one katakana (much like each English alphabetic sound is represented by 2 characters – lower and upper case).
Just drill them often by writing them and speed running recognition and you’ll be done in under 2 weeks.
What I did was completing both hiragana and katakana on duolingo, then [downloaded hiragana pro](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myapps.hiragana) and been using it each day from october to december 2022. *I probably spent way too much time on the 2 scripts, but it was totally worth it*
You realize the amount of vocab you will need to know is going to be much, much higher than the few little symbols which will take a few hours to memorize right?
It’s scary, but if you practice writing them down, it becomes much easier because you are forced to know how to write them as well
If you don’t wanna do that, then just practice reading them every day and you’ll get it. I was in your same situation a month ago, but the more time goes on, you memorize them like how you recognize 🍔is a burger
Just practice, it’s easy peezy Japanesee!
It’s okay you’ll get it with practice a lot faster than you think too
Ngl, been studying for 4 years, I still get scared when I see katakana😂
In all honesty though, I’d recommend drilling them hard now. They are much less common than hiragana so you’ll get less practice and probably develop a lopsided strength for hiragana, so drill them even harder than you did hiragana!
Yeah, but I promise you, you will get the hang of it. Transcribe passages in your textbook to Katakana. Read the small print on electronics or whatever. If you Anki, I uploaded a shared deck called “katakana reading practice.”
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Would have been good to study hiragana and katakana together to learn to pair them.
When studying katakana now, instead of writing romaji to associate them, just use hiragana. Will help enforce your knowledge of hiragana as well.
You’ll be fine. Make pictures out of them.
ト= to. Someone kicking their toe out
ヒ = hi. Someone waving at you
テ = te. Very similar to て
モ = mo. Very similar to も
And so on.
*Kanji has entered the chat*
pq bd vu il1
you’ll get used to it just like you got used to english
my school just gave me flash cards. hiragana in the front. katakana in the back.
See the [first section of this](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/s5mtva/comment/ht1lo0x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). Learning katakana is no more difficult that learning hiragana – in fact it’s quite feasible to learn them together as the sounds are the common element – i.e. each sound is represented by 2 characters, one hiragana and one katakana (much like each English alphabetic sound is represented by 2 characters – lower and upper case).
Just drill them often by writing them and speed running recognition and you’ll be done in under 2 weeks.
What I did was completing both hiragana and katakana on duolingo, then [downloaded hiragana pro](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myapps.hiragana) and been using it each day from october to december 2022. *I probably spent way too much time on the 2 scripts, but it was totally worth it*
You realize the amount of vocab you will need to know is going to be much, much higher than the few little symbols which will take a few hours to memorize right?
It’s scary, but if you practice writing them down, it becomes much easier because you are forced to know how to write them as well
If you don’t wanna do that, then just practice reading them every day and you’ll get it. I was in your same situation a month ago, but the more time goes on, you memorize them like how you recognize 🍔is a burger
Just practice, it’s easy peezy Japanesee!
It’s okay you’ll get it with practice a lot faster than you think too
Ngl, been studying for 4 years, I still get scared when I see katakana😂
In all honesty though, I’d recommend drilling them hard now. They are much less common than hiragana so you’ll get less practice and probably develop a lopsided strength for hiragana, so drill them even harder than you did hiragana!
Yeah, but I promise you, you will get the hang of it. Transcribe passages in your textbook to Katakana. Read the small print on electronics or whatever. If you Anki, I uploaded a shared deck called “katakana reading practice.”