I can't do anything until I learn the kana. I tried doing vocabulary work on Memrise yesterday and it was more frustrating than helpful. Namasensei's Youtube tutorials are hilarious and good motivation, so now I've got the hiragana vowels down, and he goes through basic grammar as well. Will do one video of his per day.
I made my first steps into Anki as well, downloaded the basic hiragana and two vocabulary lists which will become more helpful as I learn how to pronounce things. There's about 114 hiragana, but supposedly if I master the first 46 the minor changes in the rest won't be too hard.
I'm about a third of the way through the hiragana so far, so I'm hopeful that by Saturday at this rate I'll have the basic forms mastered, which will make learning vocabulary much easier. The flowchart will look like this, I guess:
Hiragana --> vocabulary --> katakana --> vocabulary --> grammar --> kanji --> vocabulary --> rinse repeat cycles of vocabulary, grammar, and kanji.
Without a doubt the first wall is the kana. Let's see if I can learn both of them in a fortnight. In the meantime, I've got the most common vocabulary and kanji, and I'll chip away at them (can't help myself) as I learn me some kana.
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