(2016-06-06, 4:05 am)Stansfield123 Wrote: Only alternative I have to offer is "don't learn to read the Kanji, focus on the Kana and the spoken language". Worry about the Kanji after you already speak Japanese. I think that's a good path (for many, probably superior to Heisig's), but, of course, that's not an alternative for people who DO want to learn to read first (because that's how they like to learn a language: by reading it). So, anyone willing to take crack at it?
Well, it's not necessary to know kanji to read, because furigana - and it's quite possible to recognise kanji/words by sight without having any real understanding of how they're constructed, just by recognising them as symbols. I think (well, know - seeing that's what I did) that ignoring kanji while doing mostly reading-focused study is completely doable.
Whether it is better than kanji-first is impossible to answer ... though if I had to learn all the kanji first I would never have gotten this far from sheer boredom. Hated RTK.
... and I do not see the problem with the stuff quoted in the OP. I don't see anything there that is particularly hateful. It's saying it's a decent tool, even - while calling it out for being half-arsed (which, y'know, after a while it just turns into a wordlist, so it's a fair argument, I feel).