when i first started learning, i didn't know there was such a thing as romaji...
1. Hiragana + basic sentence structure
2. Katakana + (still) basic sentence structure
Now, I'm on
3. Kanji + more complex sentence structure but (still) kind of basic.

the textbook i used was japanese for young people.

じゃ !

I am infact learning Japanese now and we are starting with Hiragana with kanji and vocab all mixed in, no katakana yet, purely Japanese. In a weeks time we should be starting sentence structure and grammar.

I do hiragana with grammar. I first started with kanji's though and found that wasn't a good idea and went to hiragana with grammar. I moved to kanji and still doing thoes atm....I should really learn katakana

I started with vocab and stuff, through podcasts, and learn hiragana and katakana together at Real Kana - Practice Hiragana and Katakana

This site rocks! I'm looking at Kanji a little, but I'm not worrying too much about it yet since I don't know all the hiragana etc. yet.

I started with vocab, then sentence structure + grammar.
It's because I listen to and watch a lot of things in Japanese. ie: jpop, anime, and videos of random Japanese stuff.

Learning how to read it isn't a problem yet. . . I rarely even read things in English. ^^
But I have so many different things to study from, if I do need to read any of them, I have charts. . . and the internet.

I'm going to be taking a class in the fall and I'm sure they'll teach me anyway.

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Wha> ur starting with names? shouldn't u start with the aphalbet? or do they not have 1?

Hi guys! I was wondering if any of you are familiar with a game called Slime Forest http://lrnj.com/slimeforest.html?
I downloaded the game and played it for a week, meaning that I was able to recognize all the Katakana and Hiragana, and a few basic Kanji. Then two months ago I moved and was separated from the old computer (besides I don't have the time for practising the game anymore as I am working full time this whole summer), so now I don't remember one single kana at all...bleh, all that playing for nothing, I don't remember any of them and what sounds they represents...quite annoying, but I still think that it was a good way of learning how to recognize the different kana. Of course, you need patience, and repetition (a lot of it), but it was still a great way to learn. For a long time I've wanted to try to learn the kana signs, but I have never had the motivation to sit down with a table of the different kana and tried to memorize them that way. By playing a game - not a very exciting game, really, but still a game where you interact, you have a goal, and you learn by repetition - I found that this helped a lot. So when I'm done working this summer and I get my own computer again, I'm definitely going to play the game again. Of course, I'll have to start back from scratch again (dang...but maybe it'll come back faster than when it was all new...:p).
Anyway, I just thought it could be a good idea for anyone who wants to learn the kana signs, but don't have the motivation to sit down with a piece of paper and try to memorize them that way.
Also, I feel you have the possibility to interact more than if you use Real Kana - Practice Hiragana and Katakana (but I can imagine this is a great way to recognize the different ways you can draw the same kana, so I will use this one too after I refresh my memory with Slime Forest).
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