Quote (13lack_Cat @ Nov 17 2011 06:17pm)
hiragana is not that hard and there are a lot of simple little tricks you can learn to memorize it, like the character for no kinda looks like the English word no backwards or to ( toe ) kinda looks like a foot

but I remember when I was learning Japanese I started with just hiragana then once I had that down I was like ok now i'll go back and start learning kanji... did that for about 3 days got pissed off and said fuck it I know hiragana that is enough.
then when I went to Japan I quickly realized I could not read half of anything..
learning to read / write Japanese is like learning two languages at once... and one of them consists of hundreds of symbols all meaning a different word ( kanji )... its fucking stupid
Hiragana is freaking easy, and freaking easy to teach too. I taught my friend hiragana in like around 2 months and he didn't have remebering issues, as well as he never uses it really