How do you learn Japanese?

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Do you first start memorizing hiragana and katakana? And then start learning kanji?

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Step 1 - Pokemon Green to get your kana down while mining the odd vocab word. Once you figure out what's "grammar" vs what's actually a word, you can get more vocabulary. All mined words should be put on flashcards in their Kanji form. You should be drilling between 10-20 new words a day and reviewing every single one. Be sure to read most of the stuff out loud to really solidify what's what.
Step 2 - Tae Kim's grammar guide while you're doing this. Learn the basics of some grammar so you can separate the "words" from the "grammar" which will start to help with making sense of sentences.
Step 3 - NHK EASY news. Read every new article and take down every new word, apply to flash cards, learn 10-20 of them a day as before. After a month of this, you'll only be picking up 1-2 new words total from all the articles instead of like 30.
Step 4 - Start playing an easy vidya with Kanji in it. Golden Sun, or a Final Fantasy game for example. Mine those words/kanji and drill them as before. The real goal here is to make it so that instead of pulling a shit ton of new things every day, to only be getting a handful of new stuff, as before.
Step 5 - NHK EASY should be a breeze besides new words at this point. Move up to reading Wikipedia articles that interest you, as well as random blogs and TBS news. This is sort of the low-intermediate phase.
Step 6 - After you're able to comfortably read Wikipedia things that interest you and TBS news has taught you a lot of new synonyms for the basic words you know from NHK EASY, it's time to step up to reading LNs and the "real" news. That means NHK proper, Mainichi Shinbun, and other native stuff. Include sites that interest you like IGN Japan if you're into games, and the like.
Step 7 - You're about a year in by now and you can comfortably read most things. The things you don't know, you can nearly guess based on your understanding of Kanji and your vocabulary (should be between 3000-6000 words of drilled stuff by now if you kept up with your flashcards.) At this point, drop the flashcards for all but super hard stuff/technical shit and learn through pure reading.
Step 8 - Continue learning. From here, it's pure exposure and more reading that will carry you to greatness. Return to Tae Kim's grammar if you need to refer to it, but otherwise really endeavor to figure things out naturally as possible.

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