I would say while your learning a set of hiragana or katakana (for example, AIUEO) learn a set of words that use those characters and practice writing them for the week. Also, even though you may not understand everything fluently what you read, t...
I actually sat there and just learned the katakana chart in my accounting class lol. But, I would say one method that could probably help you is learning words that incorporate katakana, for example パン(Pan-bread) オレンジ(Orenji-Orange) and so on, whi...