Get a head start on grammar. Tae Kim's grammar guide is a good start. It would be a good idea to also get familiar with the most common words; there's no good reason to avoid them just because their kanji come up later in RTK. There's a lot more to a word than knowing how to write its kanji.

somstuff wrote:

Yeah i'm actually pretty good at grammar just from reading a lot about it. Should I just do romaji sentences/vocab then? Ive done a bit of that already.

Have you learned hiragana and katakana yet?  If not, it would probably be more beneficial to learn those before you start learning words using romaji.  Generally, romaji is something that should be avoided.
If you know your hiragana and katakana already, maybe you can start learning how to pronounce the kanji you've already learned in RTK, or learn some simple compound words.  From there, you could maybe find some simple example sentences to study using those words.
Or you could go the old-fashioned route and get a hold of a good beginner textbook.  There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to work through a beginner textbook without having finished RTK - books like Genki are aimed at people who are essentially starting from zero after all.

Last edited by quark (2012 July 07, 1:45 pm)

You can learn words from song lyrics with rikaichan. U could listen tojapanese . It doesn't hurt in picking up the Intonation etc

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When in doubt, *****.
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Genki I starts with practically 0 Kanji. I was planning on doing it with RTK, but everytime I tried to type one of the sentences in it from Romaji to Kana, Google Transliterate would ask me if I meant the kanji version. Eventually, I decided that it would be better if I just plowed through RTK.

However, if you're okay with just Kana, I recommend Genki I. I absolutely despise Pimsleur as it is so boring and slow. I have all 90 lessons (from a friend) and it was so boring. Please whatever you do don't buy it.