Why is it so hard to learn katakana?

Japanese Language
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That’s hiragana, though.

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I started practicing reading so i guess that might helped me?
That and i have been SRS’ing vocabulary. alot of which happened to be katakana but still.
can read them :heavy_check_mark:
Know what they mean✖

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I love @Darcinon 's Kanjiroids game. I’ve found it very helpful.

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Sorry misread; in the second book he does Katakana using the same method.

Honestly I found Katakana super easy to learn; I actually learned it first, though I started when I was on vacation in Japan. Katakana has instant feedback most of the time since the words are mostly English. Seeing “ト” on the Kit-Kat bar (キトーカト) gave me something easy to tie the symbol to.

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Psst. It’s キットカット, not キトーカト.

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I’m already using Katakana Madness, but I’m still struggling with it.
Especially ソ、ン、サ、セ、ル、レ、ウ、ワ、ヨ、ユ。
Most of the other ones are fine.

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Also マ and ム. The way I remember that is ma has the horizontal line above, while mu has it under.

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I always think “the one that looks like an a is not actually ma, but the other way around” :stuck_out_tongue:

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That’s something else that can be confusing in the beginning. I remember reading a story where they talk about a ビル and I thought they meant ビール :laughing:

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Heh. The other day I was reading the care instructions for a set of plastic cups, and they mentioned you should use a クロス when putting them down on a table. I was staring at it going “… what does a cross have to do with anything? Is it some kind of weird etymological variant of ‘coaster’? Are they demon-posessed?”

It’s “cloth”, of course.

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This site really helped me memorize katakana and hiragana:

It runs through each character randomly like a flashcard and only takes a few minutes to practice.

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In my case, the sentence read 高いビル and my first thought was a longneck. :laughing:

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Possibly, the same person who made lowercase L look like uppercase i… :sweat_smile:
I mean, I know it’s not true, but it would fit :sweat_smile:

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Another good example:

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I have this issue all the time with passwords; it’s so annoying.

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