Step 2: Katakana

Now it's time we moved on to Katakana. If your still not caught up with, that is perfectly okay as everyone goes within their own paces. For this lesson, we will also be using Tofugu for Katakana as this guide is on the assumption that you used the previous source from the Hiragana step since the method is pretty much the same concept.

The same thing! Except different!

Step 1: Hiragana

In short, making this seem like 'steps' to achieve Japanese is faulty. So for that fact, there will be some "Step 1.5's" between them if need be. Moving on, I'll present you with the FIRST resource that I (and maybe you) will use. The website, for free mind you, is called Tofugu. We'll be using this for learning the first two alphabets which are Hiragana and Katakana.

If you have checked out other resources on learning hiragana, you'll notice that the guide is different than most other learning guides. For one thing, it's based on mnemonics which are images that are supposed to trigger the kana.

Kana for "a" (pronounced -ah). See the little A inside it?