I was reading this article about an effective way to learn Japanese and the author suggested that, rather than learning the grammar structure and then learning vocabulary as you go along, to instead learn as many vocabulary words as you can before learning the grammar rules.
How To Learn Japanese Words Fast
What do you think? Does it seem logical to follow the author's advice? Instead of cracking open the "How To" books, should I learn a decent amount of vocabulary words beforehand?
Also, in the bottom of the article the author linked to a site offering a mnemonic method called "Speak Japanese Fast" to learn 100 words/hr. Has anyone tried it? What do you think?