If you are not moving there, maybe doing the writing first would be more interesting. When I was learning Japanese at the beginning, learning kanji was my favorite part. The characters are so interesting. I'd learn the etymology of them, look at how the strokes changed, maybe how they changed again when they moved to Japan, and for some how they were simplified after the war (and how the Japan simplified form may be different from the Chinese simplified form). It's all super interesting. Hell, that is still my favorite part of the language, though I did have to eventually learn how to speak and listen better ;)
Thanks for your feedback! Very interesting, I'm sure I would love to learn all that.