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

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Learning correct stroke order (atleast early on) helps you learn the correct way to write characters. By knowing the basics of how to correctly write characters it becomes pretty easy to look up characters in a kanji dictionary.

Learning correct stroke order later on keeps you from looking like a fucking idiot if you ever goto Japan.

Stroke order is really easy and if you understand the basics you'll almost always write the characters correctly or near correctly anyway