ありがとうございます for the very fast reply! I will check those out.
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Good luck!
You can always ask questions here if you have anything specific you want to know. 
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I came here from トフグ and they said not to start with grammar until you’re level ten on wanikani, or else I’ll be spending a lot of time looking up kanji I don’t know yet. At first I was all for this, and have been going towards this. Now that I’ve arrived at level 5 though, I feel like maybe I should start on the grammar sooner, and just accept that I don’t yet know all of the kanji in example sentences. I feel like I have a fairly decent grasp now of certain concepts (when to use Kun and On, う sounds turning something into a verb, い-adjectives, な-adjectives, ある being verbs that are actions I take while える are actions that affect others/objects, の particles, は particles)
What do people suggest?
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Most beginners textbooks won’t overwhelm you with kanji from the beginning anyway, so IMHO it’s never too early to start with grammar. Free online resources include Tae Kim’s guide to Japanese, cure dolly videos, Japanese Ammo, Maggie Sensei.
As for actual textbooks, Genki and Japanese from Zero seem to be highly rated.
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nods alright I’ll keep that in mind then! I will start looking into it then when I have a bit more time again!
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I don’t really know any resources that are aimed at beginner that go hard on kanji. If they do, they tend to have vocab lists for the section. Kanji is very beginner unfriendly, and it makes little sense to expect a decent level of kanji knowledge from someone taking their first steps into Japanese.
I don’t think the kanji is the problem - potential burn-out is.
I can understand giving the advice to start slow, maybe with just one aspect of Japanese just to get your eye in. New things can be hard, and it can take some time for your brain to switch to a language that is as foreign as Japanese will be for many. It can be demotivating to be struggling with the finer details of kanji, trying to remember fresh vocab, and feel stumped at grammar explanations at the same time.
Starting grammar as soon as possible will only ever net you rewards, since you can’t use a language in any way if you don’t know grammar. I tried and failed to add grammar several times, because I took on too much work at once, with resources that just didn’t work for me personally.
My suggestion would be: be flexible. If you’re liable to quit studying altogether because you just can’t bring up the umph anymore - feel free to slow down or temporarily drop certain things. If you’re trying to force yourself through a grammar recourse, consider checking out another. Finding that one resource that you can get through from A to Z is very important.
CureDolly videos and BunPro were a great fit for me.
Best of luck! ^^
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what a surprise.
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I do indeed think that when I start on grammar, I will have to halt new WaniKani lessons for a moment.
For now though, I’m doing quite alright ^.^ I have yet to really get into trouble with my motivation :o
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The robot revolution will come. 
And it will be in Japanese.
Great to hear!
I’m personally in the camp that motivation is often unreliable. ^^ Cold routine and habit is what I swear by. 
15 months in, and it hasn’t failed me yet. Here’s hoping that will last for many more months and years to come. 
I feel the slumps in motivation every time they happen. Where Japanese is a chore that I gnash my teeth at. But I keep going, and I always, always come out of that and realize all over again that I adore this language. Learning a language is peaks and valleys for me. From a beautiful height you can end up in a deep, dark place quite rapidly, and the climb back up to that peak is arduous and frustrating. But if you keep at it, you reach yet another beautiful peak that just makes you go: 
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As for me, I started WaniKani a few months after I started studying grammar. Coming from TextFugu, I already could read a few kanji, so it made it very easy to progress through the first levels of WK. I didn’t feel like it was a detriment to my grammar studies even afterwards.
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being authistic, I can go into hyperfocus mode. It allows me to keep going and going and going with something that really interests me! Japanese has fallen into that cathegory 
I guess a part of me does worry if it ever falls out of that >.> but for now all seems well, and it doesn’t seem that it’ll go away anytime soon!
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Hi,
I’ve been lurking in the forums for a while now and thought I should make myself known.
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Hello and welcome
Here, take all of my relates! ^^
Same for me on all those things! Also on that fear of loss of momentum. 
@alexjg42 Hello and welcome!
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Hello! I’d like to ask someone a question.
I’m a new user and I haven’t bought the subscription yet. I was doing my reviews, and the 人 kanji showed up. I typed in ひと and I got an invalid answer because it wasn’t the required reading. I’d like to know whether I’m going to get a different review for the same kanji in the future with the other reading or not. Thanks in advance!
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The reading ひと will indeed be covered when you get to the vocabulary item for 人. When you learn a kanji, only one type of reading is taught, and later on when you learn vocabulary that use that kanji, you’ll learn more readings.
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So, will there be a Kanji - Reading type item with ひと? or just a vocabulary item that uses that reading?
There’s just 1 kanji item for 人, and the onyomi (じん, にん) is required for it. If you answer with ひと it will just remind you to answer with the onyomi.
There are many vocab items that include 人 within them, and one of them is the solo kanji word 人, which is read ひと.
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Also, in case you’re confused about how the system is supposed the work, I highly recommend you take a little time to go through the knowledge center (getting-started | WaniKani Knowledge), it should answer most of your questions.
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Hi new user here
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