I'm a new learner to Japanese and I would love to learn it. Although I have a hard time remembering or recalling the alphabet. Anyways on improving this?
I don't think you're gonna really be able to speedrun Japanese like that. That makes it much harder to do the rest of Japanese. The characters are a small fraction of Japanese that you have a lot ahead of you.
You'd most benefit by really becoming familiar with a little at a time and build from there. Lots of Japanese is merely memorizing stuff, but you'd forget faster if you don't understand it well. So, jumping at some many things at once and having it fly by you is really the hard way. Japanese may seem easy enough, but high in demand with the sophistication.
It's an uphill march to achieving proficiency. Imagine trying to run uphill on a big mountain. After a while, your legs will tire. Going back down becomes more appealling. If you try to fight it your way, the higher the danger of stumbling and falling, that you either have to start over to try to get back up there, or give up entirely. If you pace yourself, you can last longer and go farther.
I have two adjustments that helped me learn the kana with renshuu.
1. Renshuu's default scheduling works well for words, making sure that you don't forget them after a month. For the hiragana/katakana though, you'll be seeing them all the time. You aren't going to forget them after a month. You want to cram them NOW so that you can move on to learning Japanese. In the settings for your hiragana and katakana schedules, under advanced, condense the mastery level spacing. Something like this.
Whenever you have free time, do a "focused review" of those schedules, choosing to review all the ones you missed today.
2. In your renshuu settings, under quizzing, hide multiple choice answers. Only tap the correct answer if you actually knew it before you un-hid the answers.
Read stuff in Japanese, something with ルビ so you don’t have to stuggle with kanji at the same time. Over time you’ll get better, and once you start getting good at reading at hiragana, go over to remembering katakana, that should be easier since they all make the same sounds just they look different.
Also something I did that helped a lot is in class I would like jot down what I was thinking in my notes. Like I would like be in math and write like 「マジでねむい、はやくかえりたい…」then as you get better and do kanji and stuff I started adding kanji to my comments like 「マジで眠い、早く帰りたい…」As you write more, the alphabet and stuff will come to you more naturally so probably you just have to write a lot to get better at the writing part.
My best advice is to be consistent. Drill those characters into your brain every single day, and eventually you'll see a big improvement in your ability to identify them with speed and accuracy. At the beginning of my 日本語 journey, I had a hard time spelling out even the most simple katakana words in my head, but within a few months of dedicated study, I could recognize them at a glance :) It's going to take time, but if you put in the work, I know you'll see some amazing progress. Each tiny step brings you closer to the goal. You've got this!
