Written/printed material I can use to study?

[JaJaJackson]

Currently I am using the newbie lessons, and I love them, but since I'm always at school and my iPod is not always accessible, I would like ways to study the kanji/kana. I see on the learning center that they have charts of the kana, but that itself is not what I am looking for really. I tried to look at the kana parts of the lesson pdf's, but I can't understand it all because I don't really know the kana/kanji yet. Should I try to learn ALL the kana first and then get to do that or what? And are there any other areas or even sites that will give me good printed kana study materials, preferably with practice reading them in sentences(also with the romaji and translation woudl be nice too), not just practice identifying.

Whew, that was long. Thanks though.

[blackburn]

This should have been answered quite a long time a go but for everyone who wish to learn japanese the first step is to memorize the kana (hiragana an katakana) as first priority. If you don't do that your progress will be MUCH slower.


regards.