How do I learn Kana

Seriously, the little fucking drawings are driving me insane.

I'm usually quite good at learning things: I can speak fluently in a second language* I've only been immersed in through the internet and I learn stuff in my field** in a breeze.

 but this hol

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** computer science of course

kana is easy: just write the symbols over and over again until u memorize them. it took my about 3 weeks to learn hiragana and katakana

Kanji on the other hand is extremely hard.. i kid thee not. Took me about 2 years to get to the point where i could read most manga (btw, manga isn't exactly very complex vocabulary/syntax... so thats not saying much). I'm still working on newspapers/literature/magazines.

my advice: buy books, take lessons/classes, and practice practice practice writing those kanji(stroke order is a bitch).