A breif story of japaneseAll langaguages in the world have things in common as rules, pronouns, nouns, adjectives,verbs, pronunciation, a graphical code and a history. Japanese is not the exception and it includes all of these. Japanese is a language developed in the islands of Japan. Thera are many but only 4 are the main ones. Tokyo is in the beggest one: Honshuu.Later on the history japanese people addapted the chinese letter to theri language and created two groups of graphics know as Hiragana and Katakana. Hiragana and Katakana. Hiragana and Katakana are groups of 45 syllabels that japanese use to write down. Hiragana is for japanese words, like sushi. Katakana is for non-japanese words,like America. The basic level of japanese may include hiragana and katakana. In this case, Devon, I would suggest you to start learning hiragana first. In five by five per week. Your first homework is to memorize the first five ones. The vowels. As you can see they have a different order than the one in english and spanish. In japanese the order is a,i,u,e,o not, a,e,i,o,u. Please read them out loud until you have them memorized. : ) 
Complemantary readingJapanese writing systems
There are 46 hiragana characters for 46 different sounds. Hiragana are used for expressing "grammatical" elements such as particles, and endings of adjectives and verbs which show tenses, etc. Kanji are used for expressing "meaningful" elements such as nouns and stems of adjectives and verbs.
It is possible to write entire Japanese sentences in hiragana. If an adult forgets certain kanji which are rarely used, he/she may substitute hiragana for them. Since the basic 46 hiragana symbols and some modifications of the suffice for all Japanese sounds, Japanese children start to read and write Japanese all in hiragana before making an attempt to learn some of the two thousand kanji currently used.
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http://www.japanese.about.com/Please write your opinions and suggestions of what you want to learn.
Onegai shimasu (Please)The picture is from this website www.uni.edu/becker/japanese222.html is from the northern University of Iowa.
An interesting blog http://ajalt.weblogs.jp/japanese_for_busy_people/
