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Originally Posted by Realism
Hiragana and Katana can be learned within a week.
And then you go immediately into Kanji.
Or else you won't be able to read a damn thing.
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True to an extent, after all a lot of signs that use Kanji have furigana on top, so as long as one can read Hiragana and Katakana then they have enough to survive on in my opinion, although in the long-term it would be best to learn Kanji, especially if one wishes to be fluent.
That said one really needs to
speak and
understand the language before they learn to read it, ideally at least, because without an oral understanding there will be a lot lost when it comes to understanding how it's written and read. I would recomend that the OP learn to speak the basics of Japanese before getting bogged down in learning how to read, as learning to read Japanese is a
lot of work and may even get in the way of speaking it.