/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I very recently started learning Japanese and i'm still on the process of learning and memorizing the Hiragana/Katanaka.

Is there a method to more easily memorizing all of this ? There must be a trick where maybe the characters that end with "O" always have a curved 2nd line or something.

It's not proving to be a very hard task, but i can imagine that later on i will have to memorize so many characters that i won't be able to tell left from right

So, there's gotta be plenty of people in /jp/ who are fluent in (or at least fairly good with) Japanese, right?

Can any of you explain to me the phrase "もうそんなにたつんです", specifically the たつ/たつん bit?

So, /jp/, I started learning Japanese almost a week ago, so far I just know the hiragana syllabary (writing and pronunciation), I will start with the katakana tomorrow. There is a long way ahead for me (still have to learn the 2000 kanjis and then the most important and difficult thing - the words).
I must say that while it sure is one of the most difficult languages to master, im having a lot of fun in learning it, the way you have to use these symbols which are completely different from our letters make it very entertaining (and adddictive) to learn.

So, how has it gone for you? Does anybody here actually know how to write/read/speak it? If so, how has been your experience

Thats the second chart I've seen that looks like that, whats wrong with my 'Ki' and 'Sa'?