What is the best way to memorize how to write hiragana and katakana?
I am trying to make it so that when I want to write a word in Japanese I don't have to look up the hiragana for it. I can read hiragana and katakana but for some reason I can't remember exactly how they look when I want to write them. It would be great if I could find a way to make memorizing them a bit easier. Currently I am putting romaji Japanese song lyrics into hiragana.

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You can do this by reviewing them using anki (http://ichi2.net/anki/). Download it, run it and download the "Japanese kana deck" from the file menu.

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You need to find the hiragana and katakana tables, learn them as you were learning the English alphabetics. 

The arrangement of the words in the table should read from top to bottom, right to left. Start with the first colum, then next. For example, a,i,u,e,o write the Japanese on the paper, then ka, ki, ku, ke, ko, write the Japanese words on the paper, the third colum, the forth colum and so on...You may write those Japanese words with your computer instead of writting them on papers, it is much easier.

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