As an experienced Japanese learner, speaking is definitely much easier. In my opinion, speaking is the most valuable skill of any language. The more quickly you can speak the language, the more quickly you will be able to communicate with a native and ask them advice about that language. :) Learning Kanji is a very gradual process and will take you some years to learn enough to read at an advanced level. My suggestion with learning Kanji is that you learn it through new vocabulary words and not as individual characters. Most of the time, knowing a single Kanji on its own is useless, as it doesn't form a word most of the time, but if you learn them in combination with other Kanji or in the context of a sentence, they will become much more meaningful for you. I hope this answers your question. Best of luck to you!

Very funny question ** excuse me ahemm u_u ** the combination makes the two easier ..