Excellent question! I believe that learning how to read and write
early on gives a realistic depiction of real-world Japanese and
prepares students to learn more with less effort. In other words,
you shouldn't be learning Japanese using romaji. Romaji should only
be used to learn kana and kana should be used to learn kanji.
Learning about kanji in the beginning will also give students a
better understanding on how the language is structured and how they
should go about learning Japanese.[br][br]By lesson 10, students
learn pretty much all of the hiragana and then some. They also know
some basics about the language, and some kanji as well. Afterwards,
chapter 2 begins and everything that was learned in chapter 1
starts seeing purpose. At the end of the day, there are those
that know what people need to learn first and those whom don't.
Unfortunately there are too many resources that teach the wrong
way, or rather the very tedious unnecessary way. At Jappleng, we
teach Japanese the way people should learn because it's simply the
easiest method we can come up with.[br][br]Are our methods the
best? That's up in the air, and we'll see about that once people
report how well they've done with it. Is it perfect? No, I can't
ever say it ever will be. But does it work? Absolutely! Our lesson
plan is based off of tried and true techniques across the world.
While Japanese students may not learn the same way, we changed it
up to accelerate it like you wouldn't believe. So to sum it up,
it's simply part of our grand-scheme-of-things. If you don't like
it, you can always learn from independent lessons which may or may
not contain kana or kanji.[br]
