how to not feel hopeless starting out

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WaniKani

Things improved for me immeasurably when I put Genki aside and turned to Wanikani (wanikani.com). I am still at low level there (just started Level 7 of 60), but I am finding its approach really effective for me. I am finally learning the vocabulary that I struggled hard to get down just from Genki. I think it is the app nature of Wanikani, but mostly because of the audio to learn the readings as well as the meaning of kanji and vocabulary items. I figure I will stick with Wanikani until I get a fair bit more kanji and vocabulary until my belt, and then return to Genki to actually learn grammar without having to wrestle with vocab.

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Memrise

I strongly advise that you muscle through katakana before you start Wanikani. Maybe give Memrise (memrise.com) a try - there have separate courses for hiragana and katakana and I found it a really effective manner to drill in the kana.

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