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Originally Posted by kaoken
He's definitely right. Make sure to learn both your hiragana and katakana first. And practice reading words written in hiragana and katakana. And use those words in sentences. My suggestion is if you are learning this by yourself, go out and buy a text book.
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One added bonus is that reading in kana (hiragana and katakana) will greatly improve your pronunciation of Japanese. Check out this freeware:
Kotoba
It's very cool. It can give you the english word, then hiragana, then kanji or any order you want that in. There are a lot of word lists available for down load and it's free. But if you like it, you should shoot the programmer some coin.