I will say as I was told in high school "Forget everything you know about the English language and forget everything you think you may know about the language you're trying to learn or you're only gonna run into problems." That was when I was learning Japanese. The language it's self is fairly easy to speak o.o its the writing and reading part that are hard with Kanji,Hiragana,and Katakana that all have different characters and knowing when and where to use them.