test, i'm not persian. sorry. i'm about as white as they come. arashi is a boy band, extremely gay, and for some odd reason, my wife's favorite band. all the groups started by johnny (all boy bands) are the same: gay. that includes smap. my arashi has to do with my car. arashi means tempest or storm in english. the kanji looks badaz, check my profile you can see it on the rear window on the pic there.
i don't want to discourage anyone from learning japanese. on the contrary, i would encourage people to do it. i did it by myself for many years before i moved to japan. to really learn japanese, you need to do it for the right reasons, or you'll have a hard time. learning japanese from games and anime is akan (bad--osaka dialect). they don't use real japanese. if you live in a country where it's hard to get tapes, programs, etc, to learn japanese, it'll be harder. you really have to hear pronunciation to learn pronunciation. you have to speak to natives to be corrected.
first thing you would want to do is go on the internet and find the alphabets (hiragana and katakana) and learn those. know them by heart. practice them several times a day. make flash cards. whatever you need to learn the alphabets. after you able to read and write them without second thought, start learning basic words--food, house items, every day things. don't concern yourself with kanji at that point. write them down in hiragana or katakana,
don't use ro-maji. i can't express that enough.
after that, start learning basic verbs: to go, to be, to do, to eat, to read, etc. learn the correct conjugation for each verb. unlike english, there are only a handfull of verbs that are an exception to the grammar rules. always remember that the main verb of a sentence is at the end.
once you start the grammar part, it is ok to start learning a little kanji. try to associate kanji to the meaning of the word. that is how kanji was formed. it's a pictograph. think about kanji, live kanji. when you see the meaning in kanji, you remember the character.
if you ever want to learn what a word is, but you can't read kanji, go to
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/ and type the word you want to know. then copy the japanese word, paste it and look it up with the jap/eng dict. that will give you the reading.
my only other suggestion is to write down every single word you hear, read, etc. learn to look things up. you look up and write down and you remember.
good luck
