To start learning kanji I have nearly finished learning the radicals that make up kanji this can make learning kanji simpler also going from one stroke kanji to more complicated ones like some one elese alrady said :) this may help you as well. :)

Hello,

I don't know much about a good online resource for practicing Japanese conversation and learning Kanji. Here in Japan, Kumon is one of major prep schools for elementary schoolers. I was taking some classes for math, English, and Japanese language and Kanji. It seems juvenile but more natural and rational to me and the method is learned all over the world now. If you don't mind making some investment, it could help you learn diffent levels of kanji and sentences. I am sorry I could not tell free ones.

http://www.kumon.ne.jp/jpn/english/learning_method/elementary_level.html

I am in the same boat. (Un?) fortunately, I am unemployed and am constantly bored between teaching Italki lessons, so I have found a lot of online resources. 

Kanji damage is definitely one of the best for learning kanji. http://kanjidamage.com/kanji/

The great thing about kanji damage is that, unlike any textbook I've ever used, it actually starts with the kanji that are the simplest to read/write (fewest lines, simple meanings etc.), and it ranks the kanji and compound words according to how commonly they are used in everyday life in Japan! It also shows you the radicals, and how they are used, from the simplest to the most complicated and gives you tips on how to use the radicals to guess at the meaning of a kanji you don't know. For example, when (月）is used as a small radical to the left side of a more complicated kanji like 肺 (lung), it means "organ of the body." So even if you didn't know 肺 was lung, you'd know it was some organ of the body.

I have also found IknowJapanese (http://iknow.jp/series/3423) to be very useful and very fun. Again, the best thing about this is it teaches you the most commonly used words in everyday life in Japan FIRST...which is huge. They analyzed the 1000 most commonly used words in Japanese by counting the frequencies of word use, and that became the "Core 1000." In my opinion, you should definitely start by learning the core 1000 as that will give you more speaking proficiency sooner. After all, one of the first things my Japanese college textbook taught me was how to say "mathematics" (honestly, not that useful in everyday life) and I didn't learn how to say "I think...." until the second semester!

Hi Sara! I'm new to Japanese study, and I'm mostly learning on my own. A great place to start is Erin's Challenge ( https://www.erin.ne.jp/en/ ). There are skits and scripts and lots of learning tools, and it's totally free to use.

A month isn't a lot of time to learn kanji. If you have a smartphone you might consider getting an app to help you decipher signs and that sort of thing.

Good luck!

If you want to get better at conversational Japanese quickly, I highly recommend Ken Cannon's Japanese through Anime: http://www.japanesethroughanime.com/

It sounds super lame when you hear about it, but it's very effective at getting you used to actual conversational style since that's mostly what they use in anime. He only writes in romaji in the class, so it won't help you with writing. Also it's not free; it's pretty expensive, but worth it IMO.

The other one I have for you is Atsuhiro's YouTube channel where he teaches you a bunch of "real" Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/user/fzsdjbncf2000/videos

Atsuhiro's stuff is (mostly) super casual slang, so use with caution!