[mkfuba07]

I find that after learning the kana and basic particles(wa, ga, no, o, etc.), then learning kanji has helped my progress a lot. It places a meaning, sound, and picture together into one character that I then memorize.

I get confused when people say that you don't have to conjugate in Japanese (I may have the definition of conjugate wrong, or something).What is -ました? What are plain and polite? Positive and negative? Don't these all require certain modifications to be carried out for them to be interpreted correctly? This may be off topic, but I think it does concern learning the language. This is one of the things that I'm having the most trouble with XD