I'm japanese. Would I suggest you our way. we trace the hiragana's pattern ,trace the pattern,trace,trace,trace.and we write down hiragana,and look at hiragana, write down, look at, write down,look at. it is only lol but,I think tracing is good way. and too look at picture with hiragana.

I'm studying Japanese, and actually I find that the best way to learn them is to use them. I have a hiragana chart beside my bed along with a notebook, so every night before I go to sleep I write what has happened that day.. In Japanese. It's just like a Japanese diary, haha. It's simple sentences, but when you write in Hiragana every day, eventually you can do it without the chart! Good luck :)

1)I printed out an hiragana sheet and i started to write above it. 2) i converted my favourite Japanese songs in to hiragana pasted the text in to Word changed the color from black to light grey i used character 18 width and printed out it 20 times for each song. While i was listening the song slowly i was writing on the light grey hiragana text. You can do the same with Japanese listening exercises or with Japanese tales. Yes writing will help you a lot for memorizing i know it needs a lot of time but there are not easy ways for learning a new language.This will also increase your speed about reading in Japanese.

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Clearly the best way to learn them is by heart. The point is that there is a huge difference between being able to read it and write it. I do not know whether you can find them on the web, but in japan there are lots of books with "creative" ways to learn hira- and katakana, which help you to write them properly, too. What I personally suggest you, is to pick a bunch of hiragana and katakana and learn them by heart first. Then, get some basic words and try to write them down with the kana you learnt. (in the meantime if you could memorize the words in Kanji it would be fantastic, but do not overload your brain =). After that, the exercice you do to keep on track are really up to your fantasy. I would make some self-testing. ex. from "USAGI" (rabbit) =⟩ "U_GI"; and you fill up the space =P (just a random example.) I want to underline how important is to learn how to read and write at the same time: the memory you use to recognise a character is different from the one that allows you to write it. Practice is the key to perfection. Wish you all a nice saturday night, time for me to go party! YAY!!!