[RickOShay]

I used to have a bad habit of sounding out many katakana words when i read them. I think native English speakers knowing it is likely an English word tend to want to stop and sound out the word, whereas with hiragana and kanji we more quickly go to the instant recognition thing. Anyhow you will be able to remember them eventually, just keep at it. If it makes you feel better I had the same problem too, katakana took me much longer than hiragana to get comfortable with.