Tl/Dr; I can already read hiragana and katakana and some kanji, what should i use to really start learning Japanese as a beginner?
So to start i want to say I know how to read hiragana and katakana and a handful of kanji already, when i’m watching anime i do notice quite a few sentences or single words that i already know as i did spend quite a bit of time in the past playfully learning Japanese, which before i really started i had spent around 2 years just learning how to learn a language and then put a pause on Japanese and spent the last year and a month or two on Spanish. I am comfortable enough with my Spanish now that I would like to start bringing Japanese back but idk where to start with where i am at. i had translated a song maybe a month or so ago because i spent a lot of time at the beginning with my Spanish learning through songs and not much else but i’ve come to realize thats not really the best method (however im listening to music all the time if im not asleep so thats my reasoning for spending so much time on it in the past). I used Lingq and translated manga on webtoons for Spanish before but i felt myself getting bored too quickly with lingq and dont feel i know enough to jump into even beginner manga in Japanese. so my question is what would you recommend starting with? what have you guys used in the beginning or what would you have done differently?
Edit: i do have genki one that i was using before and a spanish to japanese vocab list book along with a short story one, genki feels like it should wait until i know more and i dont want to focus on vocab list rn