[hiimshort]

May I recommend the learn Morse with google page?

https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/

I went through it a few times in a day and felt confident enough to be able to solve the Morse puzzles on my own in Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes when playing with friends. The site made it pretty easy to pick up!

[san_dimitri]

Thank you for this website. I tried so many time learning Morse and often failed. With this site, I picked up half the alphabet in 20 mins. All I can see now are "Tape", "Submarine", "Hippo" etc.

[geoffeg]

Make sure you're not memorizing each letter's dits and dahs, that'll make it much harder to receive and transmit morse code at faster speeds. Better to learn the general "sound" of each character, often using a Koch method trainer.

[fr0sty]

+1 to the above.

Implementing a mental dit/dah decoder + lookup table is the shortest path to being able to decode written CW ` _ . ___ _ ` but it will cause you problems trying to receive faster CW since you can't count, assemble, lookup fast enough to receive at more than 5-8WPM. And even then you are generally doing "keyboard copy" where you write down the letters as you hear them and then go back to actually read the message you received later.

[swalberg]

+1 to this. I started learning Morse with that same Google site and it's optimizing for reading, not hearing. Took me time to unlearn everything and do it properly.