Thread:Jo SHININGSTAR/@comment-6429245-20170708182959/@comment-24288618-20170709095421

so always start with the hiragana and the katakana table

try your best to learn the characters, and try to use memory association, so like, oh this character looks like this and that

or as i do with one of the pairings:

for ka: in hiragana its か and katakana its カ and since it looks alike i know its the same pronounciation

also for the p-k/b-g sounds, when you add a circle, its pa or ka, but when you add two strokes, its ba or ga

use wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana

try to find some patterns of how they work, but most of them are just memorisation. also, reading wiki articles help. since most of the coord names are romaji pronounciations, you can use it to associate. so for instance, Cool is ku-ru, クール, and so everytime i see this "ク" character, i know its "ku" because of "cool".