Should I start with "words for Japanese Basics" or "Beginner Kanji (N5)"? I am already doing the hiragana and katakana and I have a very small amount of vocab already memorized but no specific Kanji knowledge or radicals.
It’s up to you. Depending on your previous experience and goals, you can decide whether you want to start learning vocabulary or keep memorizing characters.
Renshuu supports gradual introduction of kanji, so you can go ahead and learn a word in kana now and then learn the kanji later.
Studying the 80 basic kanji wouldn't be bad, and it's a way to learn vocabulary too. Just don't get desperate trying to learn all of their readings, one or two at the beginning is enough.
You can practice writing their readings with the kanas as a way to reinforce what you have learned.
Kanji vs vocab isn't either-or, and there's no order to do one first or last. Kanji and vocabulary scaffold each other, so it's most effective if you study both at the same time to make connections between them.
Kanji takes a long time to accumulate, so I'd recommend starting as soon as you're comfortable doing so. However, it's possible to study words in Renshuu without the kanji, so you can work on building a foundational vocabulary first while you work up the confidence to tackle kanji if you want to. It's completely up to you and how you want to study.
Depends on what you wanna do, if it's reading (like news, books, or/and games) then Kanji would be the better choice, however if you want to speak, write, or listening then go with vocab instead.
You can use the "Add kanji helper schedule" to learn kanji of words you already studied, so you always have at least one reading and one word known of the kanji to study together with the vocab.
