You can pick up the Japanese course books from Mount Royal, they are fairly usefull for learning on your own. Make sure you learn both basic alphabets - Katakana (used for english words/hentai/manga) and hirogana (used for Japanese origin words). That will give you a good base for reading in Japanese. Write each letter out hundreds of times and that will help you memorize.
Japanese is not super hard to learn but is super hard to master. Nihongo ga dekimasen de####a.
Listen to Japanese music as well, it will help you distinguish between words if your not used to hearing Japanese and watch Japanese T.V.
There is another alphabet called Kanji which is based on symbols that make up a work similar to Chinese, there are thousands of them. I wouldn't start to get into Kanji letters though until you master Hirogana and Katakana.
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