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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee
Start learning kanji, but never learn them in a random order. Always learn them in context.
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Seconded. On the same note, Heisig's
Remembering the Kanji is an excellent method for kanji learning. It won't teach you the readings, but it will give you a keyword for each kanji that reflects its meaning, and makes it much easier to look up.
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Originally Posted by Keaton421
I have to disagree with AJATT - he extols the virtues of studying ten thousand sentences, but he never explains well how a beginner at Japanese is going to get ten thousand Japanese sentences. It's a complete farce. Besides, he didn't learn by making sentences - he collected sentences as a biproduct of learning.
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1.) He has good reason to praise the sentence method, I've unintentionally learned a lot of grammar and vocab by memorizing song lyrics.
2.) There's plenty of native Japanese material available to mine sentences from, no matter what your location; anime, books, websites, etc.
3.) You may be right that the sentences were merely a bi product. The point of AJATT isn't memorizing sentences, it's immersing yourself in your chosen language, regardless of physical location; the sentences simply help speed the process up.