Your absolute top priority when starting your adventure into the japanese language, is to equip yourself with most basic of tools needed, that being Hiragana/Katakana.
If you've learned them both to a degree where you can recognize each character fairly consistently, you can move on to grammar/vocab/kanji
Learn hiragana, then katakana. Gradually introduce yourself to kanji. It will not make sense to learn words simultaneously because you would end up unfamiliar with spellings. This is like learning half the alphabet and not learning how to spell correctly because you aren't familiar with the letters.
Once you learn hiragana, katakana, and kanji, you then can learn words from them and grammar. Then it will make sense.
Words come first. They motivate everything: kana, grammar, and eventually kanji. Unfortunately, for a variety of (good) reasons, you can’t learn any vocabulary on renshuu until you know hiragana. This presents a chicken and egg problem.
So you have a choice. You can learn the kana by rote without the benefit of any motivating words, and trust that you’ll be able to backfill the vocabulary later. This seems to be what most renshuu users do and advocate, so it’s probably not a bad strategy.
Your other option is to learn some basic vocabulary using romaji and use that to motivate hiragana: あ is for arigato, い is for intānetto, う is for udon, え is for eigo, and so on. You won’t be able to do that here, but it’s a good idea to use renshuu as a supplement to your main curriculum anyway.
Which strategy you pursue is completely up to you, but if you find yourself struggling, remember that you have options.
I mean, to learn english, you learn the alphabet and then basic words first, so I guess follow that system and learn the basic characters before complex words
Stuff that worked for me, when I started learning Japanese:
Start with basics - obviously, hiragana, but combine it with simple, short words to practice writing the hiragana you’re studying (ex. ちち,はは, みず, そら, etc). Then as you’re reviewing learned hiragana, gradually start learning basic grammar/sentences, to say, for example, “わたしは (insert your name) です” — “I am (insert your name)”. As you learn, practice physically writing these symbols, words and sentences - that way you’ll get some experience using hiragana and I think it usually sticks a bit better than plain memorization. After you learn hiragana, move on to katakana and continue with simple vocabulary and grammar/sentences. With katakana you can repeat the same procedure, just for simple, short loan words.
Again, it’s my experience, which might not work the same since I started on a certain owl platform, and not on renshuu, but maybe this approach will fit your learning style and this app
PS: judging by your nickname, you already know words for “snow” - ゆき and “princess” - ひめ, so you can try writing them in hiragana too :3
In addition to what ポールおじちゃん, I've seen a lot of people learn directly with natives first in language exchange community. They asked basic things like greetings, how to pronounce it them correctly and try to pronounce it with natives (so they get feedback immediatly). There are plently of native Japaneses that can wait to practice their english and teach you things in those community. Then, they repeat that for a few weeks, months and sometimes, learning ridiculously advanced things in the process. And at some point, they decided to take a step further and study the language more seriously.
Basically, they get a taste of the language first and get motivated from that (similar to what ポールおじちゃん). Some get kinda "addicted" to that and learn mainly through interacting with natives. Then, when they are ready or feel the need to, they start to study more seriously grammar, kanji or even kana.
Thank you guys .For your recommendations.But I actually learned many of the languages I know by learning words,customs in their cultures etc.But your comments give me another perspective of how everyone learns languages differently.Well good luck to us at learning.
