i've beent aking it for i'm in my 3rd year of japanese in high school, I've always been interested in it. Its not extremely hard, Kanji is a bitch, reading it is sorta harder than english but u'll get used to it once u practice it. They don't space out words so u have to become familiar with the words so you'll kno where one ends and another starts. pretty easy all in all, just remember the correct particles... thats what i get messed up on... particles... de, ni, wa (ha), etc.