Best way to learn to read Japanese?

[Mr Khan]

rolltide101x said:

Lafiel said:
well, the very first step should be to learn Hiragana and Katakana, those are syllabary the japanese use (Katakana only for english words, to be "cool" or for phonetics)

these always have the same reading (which is not the case for the Kanji, the complex chinese letters the japanese use aswell) and no additional meaning

learning these should only take you about a day

By default Rosetta Stone has Kanji/Furigana as how it reads I should change that to Hirigana and Katakana?

Furigana is hiragana (or rather, the characters of Furigana are rendered in hiragana). Katakana words will never be rendered in kanji in any case.

Honestly reading is the hardest part in Japanese, though more all-ages games like Pokemon will be easier, more adult-focused like, say, Catherine is going to presume adult-level literacy (games in-between, like, say, Final Fantasy, will be more middling in terms of vocabulary).

Really, i should say "reading aloud" is the hardest part in Japanese. There are a LOT of Kanji that i recognize, and so can patch together the meaning of a word, but would have no idea how to pronounce.

For reading, though, i'd buy myself a textbook and keep with that. Watch a lot of subtitled anime, too, as that gets you word recognition off the words that you're seeing (and some others).