I find the playing cards harder to learn, personally! I'm not sure what it is, perhaps only because there are no pictures to go by, LOL. I'm very visual so I feel like it may be overwhelming, but then again, I am probably just scaring myself
Out of curiosity, how are you learning? It might be that you're just scaring yourself... I just took the really basic meanings and wrote them on the cards (although so faintly i have to really peer to see them!!). I still have the tarot minors in my head too, so I kind of think of them too as i'm learning. I now also have basic hedgewitchery in my head too, just to complicate matters! (I found the stuff for the witch of middle memory, but haven't read it yet!) But i think best to keep it simple at first, because you just need to find a way that feels right to you before adding too many bells and whistles.
For example, I just did a little spread for myself asking: could i become a professional psychic medium? (in the future, i'm not ready yet!) and drew (am I allowed to say what cards I've drawn in a reading here, or does that infringe the board rules? if so i will edit, thanks mods) 8 spades, 8 hearts and 9 diamonds. With the 8 spades i'm recalling the bound woman in the tarot RWS 8 swords, and that makes sense; but the 8 hearts seems to really break out of my fear, and with 8s signifying power and growth etc, I sort of envisage my heart breaking out of all these barriers and really growing towards my future, towards the self-sufficiency of the 9 diamonds (like the 9 of pents). So the 8 hearts feels intuitively a bit different to the 8 of cups, and in any case I've got written on the card 'invitations, love letters, karmic connections' so none of that really felt intuitively right in this reading and I just went with how the 8 bursting hearts were making me feel as i looked at them.
But, the shadow card for this was the 3 of spades, and that's got me a bit confused. I mean,, it makes me think 3 of swords but that doesn't feel quite right... i've got written on the card 'affair, self-deception, lies' so what should I think? 3 is an increase, like empress, spades are worries, mental issues... that the basis of my question is my own self-cheating sorrow in not allowing myself to break free of artificially constructed barriers? That makes sense to me...
So yes, basically that is how I'm learning at the moment and I will look into other methods but I think the main thing is trying to stay simple to begin with, with small spreads and just trying to think as much as possible of the numbers and what they mean.
Even though I have my reservations about the red good black bad of hedgewitchery, in this reading the hedgewitchery stuff did also make sense, as in beginning with worries, then following my passion and then making a living from it.
Sorry if that was all a bit long-winded and unnecessary, but that is basically my method as the moment, a work in progress! If you ever want to do reading exchanges or my opinion on interps or anything else, let me know as I would quite like a study buddy/ies!!