en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/567500 Comments by wrightak http://caught-redhanded.com/archives/506#IDComment24127187 I had exactly the same experience where katakana seemed to take me a lot longer than hiragana. I wondered about it for a while but I soon realized that the problem was exposure. I simply wasn't reading katakana enough. As soon as I got more practice, it sorted itself. This lack of exposure argument holds even now because I pause when I look at some of the rarer ones like ヲ. Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:05:45 +0000 http://caught-redhanded.com/archives/506#IDComment24127187