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I found learning hiragana / katakana on Duo was good, think it depends on your learning style, but it worked for me. Biggest problem as others have said is you get to the end and it's "over" so to speak... I was recommended this app and found it perfect to follow up with:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.jpn

I try to do a 20 character review now and again, it picks 20 characters at random and asks you to read / write them a few times each, a bit flash-cardy.

Relatively cheap too!

There's an app called "Write it! Japanese", which is specifically for hiragana and katakana https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.jpn I haven't used it much personally but I know that it works.

I've had this trouble with different programs too. ジャ is ja. Why some turn it into jya I don't know. Either keep this those programs and just accept that jya is right for them but ja for everyone else or just find another program to work with.

If you have android may I recommend this app for learning the kana? You have to pay to get the custom test option but it helps you learn how to both recognize and recall the kana and all the translations are correct. Finding a program that asks you to recall the kana is so hard to find.

Write It! Japanese is a free one I've used. Their flashcard mode costs money, but you can pick parts of the syllabary and practice section by section for free.

It took me a couple days to learn hiragana and katakana, I just used this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.jpn

I think with kana you can write each character out a decent amount of times and then quiz yourself on the recognition of it and you should be fine, you'll be reading it all the time so you won't forget it

I like Write it! for hiragana and katakana. I just wish it was a little more flexible with regards to the review quizzes, but other than that it's pretty decent. And free.

Write it! Japanese: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.jpn Although the update made the option to do a custom test paid you can still learn the hiragana and how to write it out with proper stroke order. Also the katakana is there to.

I'd recommend spending a week learning as many useful words and sentences as possible in a certain topic, then getting a tutor or language partner on italki.com and trying to use them. Keep doing that every week.

Don't focus too much on flashcards and book learning without actually trying to use them in a conversation. A lot of people spend too much time doing that and then they freeze up or just refuse to talk since they don't feel ready yet, or lack confidence in speaking.

Learning the basics of hiragana and katakana will also be really useful for reading things. I made an app that teaches you how to write and read the kana. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.jpn

I have been using this app and it's helping me! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.jpn

Human Japanese for vocab&grammar with very nice explanations and examples and audio, Lingo Deer for vocab&grammar with a nice test-like approach which makes you recall things, WaniKani for kanji.

And for learning kana, on my android phone I used an app called Write It! Japanese which made me draw hiragana & katakana on mobile screen and then told me if it was correct or not. After getting them right on that app for a few days, I started to use RealKana to improve my kana skills.

And a tip: don't think too much before applying a learning method. Don't obsess over 'the bestest best way of learning Japanese'. Just try that method. However don't stick with it too long thinking it will get better if you don't find it working for you. Switch to another one, mix them up. Find your own thing. Not everyone's methods are going to work for you. Try to have fun, find a method you can enjoy.

I'm using this atm and is pretty good from my point of view, give it a try. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.jpn

Like this app. This app teaches how to write a character and at the same time let you write.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.jpn

Like this app. This app teacher how to write a character and at the same time let you write.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.jpn

Nope, I learned last year with just audio and visual aids

I would write along in my notebook to that kana song playlist and ignore the romaji on thejapanesepage's guide while paying special attention to the audio and mnemonics.

There's apps like Write-it that prioritizes audio and Dr. Moku that teaches with mnemonics. It really doesn't matter if you use romaji to learn kana or not, just focus on how Japanese pronunciation sounds while you write them and get it over with already.

This app helped me a lot: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jernung.writeit.jpn

Disclaimer: I'm about 3 months in and haven't got a text book, but I'm in no hurry to learn or spend money. I'm also rather new to this subreddit (or any other JP focused community)

Yeah, Duolingo doesn't explain much. I found WaniKani does kind of mention the sound changing for on'yomi and kun'yomi though tofugu probably covers it better, as well as rendaku. You're likely to speed through WaniKani's free content though.

Personally due to my slow and free approach I use, on android, memrise genki (I'm about 500 through the 1900 "words" which include kana), Drops (seems to be mostly katakana loan words), Mondly, and Duolingo but mostly as a way to find new things that I can write into a csv file for anki (except memrise, I will at some point actually start using anki and add the genki content lol). They each only take about 5 minutes of my time a day so I'm not putting too much work into it. I'm sure looking up the kanji will introduce many more, for instance when I looked up kawa for river I found two others (here's a copy paste from my csv file)

kana|kanji|english|extra|tags|image kawa|革|leather|also river and wrapping|mondly,clothing| kawa|皮|hide/skin/wrapping/mask|also leather and river, バナナの皮[banananokawa] banana peel, 化の皮[bakenokawa] masking one's true character|mondly,food| kawa|川|river|also leather and wrapping|mondly,travel|

I will at some point get a text book of course, but as I'm in no hurry I imagine that knowing a lot of the vocab and kanji will make focusing on the grammar much easier.

Of course, I have a Japanese keyboard on my devices (desktop microsoft IME- mobile Gboard) so I get some practice actually typing the language, which I'm far more likely to do than write though I did use an app to practice kana with a stylus when I was first learning those.

This then gets the occasional supplement of youtube videos and articles and maybe a podcast (though I haven't started listening to any regularly) that can help flesh things out more. And of course anime.