**Phase 0:** 1. Learn Hiragana. Application doesn't matter. Duolingo, Lingodeer, or others are all fine. 2. Move on when you have the basic Hiragana characters out of the way. **Phase 1:** * Learning: Continue 2 lessons per day (split between Hiragana & Katakana) * SRS: New cards from Comprehensible Japanese Deck * SRS Immersion: 1 Comprehensible Japanese Video * Regular Immersion: * FIRST, watch an anime with English subtitles * THEN, watch the same episode with Japanese subtitles OPTIONAL: listen to the audio as background noise as desired