Ive been doing lessons on Duolingo for about 20 days now. Im still very early on in this effort, but Im starting to be able to read hiragana without the romanization being shown. Itll probably take me quite a while before Im comfortable doing that, but progress is being made.

Ive started noticing some small things in hiragana like ha being pronounced wa, which has prompted me to Google stuff and learn about the history behind the pronunciation change. Pretty cool, imo.