>>28424676Wall of text ahead, sorry
An as anon who started with Duolingo too, I was initially turned off by the app trying to teach me Japanese characters so I get your frustration. My advice, tough it out and learn the hiraganas and katakanas by writing the characters down on paper and training to recognize their meaning through Duolingo since it's a step you can't avoid. The problem with Duolingo is that it doesn't really have an easy way to go review the words and characters it supposedly already taught you. As soon as the app tries to teach you some kanjis, you can stop using it since it's shit at it, the font is way too small to learn them that way. I prefer using Tanoshii Nihongo to learn kanjis
Another advice, anons can tell me if they disagree: don't use Anki, it probably won't be of much use to you right now. It's for people who have been learning Japanese for a while already
I can't insist enough on doing handwritten reps. Write 5 hiraganas down a day, for example, あ=a, え=e, い=i, お=o, う=u, look away from the correction and try to see if you remember the meaning of what you wrote when looking at the characters, and then go through Duolingo to see if you actually remember them. Everyone has their best ways to learn stuff, and it's through writing for me
