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Originally Posted by DanteSan
Sweet. Many thanks. 
Also, yes. I am using Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura's Let's Learn Hiragana there are many words in it that are written using only Hiragana, while realize it's important to learn Kanji, and I fully plan to, I am taking it slow, but would like to learn some of the basic words, especially as what to call things as I am learning. I have figured now though that Flashcards including the words and not only the symbols may be a good way of picking up some words while still practicing Hiragana. |
I'll be honest: One of the biggest failings of Japanese language instruction is waiting too long to introduce kanji. If you know hiragana, learn katakana. If you know both, start kanji immediately.
While you're learning katakana, just start going down the list of words appearing on the JLPT N5. Just Google "JLPT N5 vocab list" or something.
Knowing kanji ASAP is important because, just like with Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots in English, it will make your vocabulary grow fast and much more easily.