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Originally Posted by BakaCrisis
Now I am concerned because I wont be learnign hiragana and katakana and kanji, So would it be wise to continue my method of study but not know how to write a single sentence in Japanese?
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Before I learned how to speak any Japanese I learned how to write hiragana and katakana. The first day of class my teacher wrote all the vowels on the board in hiragana and told us to memorize them. The next day he wrote the k's. He did this everyday. He would give us little tricks to remembering them (numonic devices right? ... definitly not sure how to spell that). Everyday for homework we would have to write out the alphabet as far as we knew it ten times. After we learned all the hiragana, we learned katakana the same way.
Hiragana and katakana look intimidating, but they are very similiar and not to difficult to remember after a while. You study 5 hours a day? That's impressive! Even if you just take a few minutes each day to do some exercise like this, I'm sure you will find it easy. Even if you don't know kanji, at least you will have some basic idea of how to read and write in Japanese. And the internet is a magical resource! There are plenty of hiragana and katakana charts that you can print out from Google.
... Hope this helps some!