The first thing is the mentality, you have to start learning Hiragana and Katakana with the mentality that it is the most basic thing in the Japanese learning process, you have to take at maximum 1 week for each. After that, you’re just going to keep improving how fast you read words with them.

Steps for Hiragana:

– See this chart for Hiragana

– Then you start memorizing one column at a time, starting from the “AIUEO” column, if you want you can write them on a paper a couple of times.

– To fix it, you can use this game called Kana Invaders. It shows you random symbols and you have to type them correctly. (I believe this game doesn’t work if you’re on mobile, but there are tons of apps that can help you with that).

– Just keep in mind that you should not stick with the Hiragana and Katakana symbols for that much time, the real learning of them comes with reading texts, you don’t need to be ”perfectly” reading to start with the texts. Having only a general idea of them is already enough.

Same thing for Katakana, start memorizing one column at a time, starting from the “AIUEO” column. Then use the game.

Here’s the Katana Chart:

After you kind of have memorized both of them, you should already start learning some words with both hiragana and katakana, this is the only way you’re going to really really memorize them forever.