日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 6

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日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 3
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日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 4
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日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 5
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I'm trying to learn 日本語, I've got ひらがな　と　カタカナ down but I'm absolutely terrified of the prospect of memorizing thousands of moon runes, and it doesn't seem to be easy to look up the kanji for a word or find what word a kanji is in a dictionary due to the only real organization system being number of brush strokes. Currently I'm focusing on particles: は,　に,　の,　から-まで,　を,　へ... I've wanted to get practice in by reading manga, since that would give me incentive to learn and memorize things since I could read it without having to stop to look everything up each panel. However not many manga I've looked at have furigana, and with the difficulty of looking up an alien kanji I mentioned it's difficult. I'm trying to find a way I could make it work, since I know I need some motivation like that or else I won't even try, but once I have it I'm a dedicated learner.