I just recently started Japanese self-study to prepare for some classes in the future, and I'm at a bit of a road block here.
I'm soaking up grammar rules and sentence structure pretty easily, but I don't have much vocabulary to implement it with. Learning more vocabulary obviously isn't going to be an issue with the spoken language, but I'm not quite sure how to approach the written aspect of it. Would it be best to learn most of the basic nouns and verbs with kana (thus prioritizing the spoken language) before moving on to associating those words with kanji or would I be hindering myself by not learning the kanji at the same time?