Something I have tried several times to find, but have always been successful in doing so is this: full articles or stories, or any writing for that fact, written entirely in hiragana or katakana. Now why would I look for this I might ask? One way I found that works for me to learn new "alphabets" is to translate it either one way or the other. In fact, I once taught myself how to write using bopomofo characters. It wasn't Chinese, but I used the characters that corresponded to the roman letters on this keyboard:
Of course that was only something silly, and what I'm doing with Japanese is much more serious. But it is the repetition that forces the characters into my head. If I had a full page of hiragana or katakana written out in front of, I would translate it into romaji, then translate the romaji to English. So I'd learn some new words as well, and grammar. You could argue I could do this starting with kanji, but my main focus at this point is definitely on the kana. If anyone reads this and has a page full of kana, please send me in its direction!!
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