(This is my second time writing this, because my session timed out )

Thanks for the reply!

I already know Hiragana, and have been working on Katakana and the Kanji radicals for the past week or so. I think that it would be the best to learn all of the radicals before I actually dive into real Kanji so I could piece together the Kanji I learn by radicals, and not stroke order. Do you think this is a good approach?

Also, do you think that the sites are worth taking a look at?


I think this one would be useful for testing my level of Japanese. Is it worth using? http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/jlpt5/

All I have downloaded from this site is the grade 1-6 Joyo Kanji practice sheets. I've heard that the Japanese are adding another 100 or so Kanji to the Joyo Kanji list, but I don't know if they are included in these PDFs.
http://www.studyjapanese.org/lessons/279-jouyou-kanji-practise-sheets

Also, I most likely will be purchasing Textfugu (from http://www.textfugu.com ) to help learn Japanese. If you don't know what Textfugu is, it's an online textbook that's written exclusively for self learners.

Any other comments/study tips or anything else to help me would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again for all of the replies! ^.^