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My recommendation would be:

1. First: learn Hiragana + Katakana (Stop using romaji as soon as possible)

2. After that: Vocab + Kanji + Grammar at same time.

Why Vocab + Kanji + Grammar at the same time ?

If you want to read anything interesting, you'll need all three. If you can't read anything interesting, it's a good chance you'll get bored, and stop studying.

The bonus is: learning one helps you learn the others.

However, I would suggest that the biggest challenge in learning Japanese is staying motivate over the long run. The order that you learn things in doesn't really matter that much, as long as you keep studying. So, if you find it easier to stay motivated by delaying kanji until later, then by all means do that.

In the sentence:

"今日お父さんて帰って来るっけ？"

with translation "Is Dad coming back today?"

what is the function/meaning of the て immediately after お父さん ?

Thanks. That makes sense.

There's most likely two boxes, and you are saying "the small(er) of the boxes"

I'm haiving trouble remembering the particles and their functions, as well as differenciating between them all. Any tips?

Wow, you weren't kidding about the voice. Luckily, the subtitles were good. Thank you for the video, I will definitely be looking through that channel.👍

It's the former. :)

The particle と sometimes follows onomatopoeia in Japanese*, while katakana is used for certain such words and/or emphasis.

It would be a bit like writing "COMPLETELY fooled" in English for "コロッとだまされる".

You can see something similar with all the forms of "dazed": ぼーっと, ボーっと、ボーッと、ぼうっと、ぼおっと、ボウッと、ボウっと、ボオッと、ボオっと.

Some use katakana, some do not. But all use hiragana for the final と.

*you can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_sound_symbolism

Because of the way that the new community tab is shaping up, I'm archiving this thread. It'll be easiest to get responses in the future with a one-thread-per-question style.