[DanielSheen]

I learned basic sentances and vocabulary before I even started to learn how to write Japanese. I still am focusing more on speaking than writing. Thats the way you are taught when you are a child. You don't teach a child to write a language as they are learning to speak it. Learning to read is not an easy task.

I don't belive that saying If you don't learn to speak as you read you will never or hardly know how to read. Reading is a different thing than learning to speak a language. Again, It takes more than 2 weeks for someone to know how to read. Unless you are some kind of super child. Tell me one child who learned the alphabet and suddenly knew how to read after two weeks. My brother, and everyone in his class, every kid I know of, even when I, and my friend were in kindergarden and learning to write. We learned the alphabet, but couldn't use it, because it take a few months to learn how to read.