I just started learning japanese. I know the hiragana and katakana characters and i am studying with the Genki 1 Book. When should i start learning kanji characters? At the sime time while i am learning vocabulary? Should i wait for them to get introduced in the book?
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There should be an associated kanji section per chapter. Study those as you go through the chapters. From my memory, the grammar lessons will be first from 1-12 and then the kanji will be after that from 1-12
* Chapter 3 introduces kanji
* About 15 are introduced per chapter
* This lets you learn at a very easy pace of 1 per day if you take 15 days to do a chapter (which is more-or-less average pacing)
* The kanji they introduce are extremely common and good to learn
I would use the method Genki does, teaching you about 15 kanji per chapter in the back section. Do not attempt to learn all the kanji for all the vocab words in the book (unless you are native Chinese and already know the characters). This will slow your progress to a crawl and leave you in beginning grammar territory for way too long.
learn characters as they’re used in the vocab you learn
if you miss any or learn just the kana for a word, you can always go back
in fact you’ll forget plenty and need to go back all the time, i certainly do
but there’s no need to wait if that’s what you mean