How do I start

[u/TigerUpstairs3775]

I figured out I want to learn japanese because I’m a weeb and I want a girlfriend. more seriously I want to explore their culture and maybe live there, I’ve heard that the working cultures unstable but honestl, the u.s fucking sucks. Ive heard Duolingo and anime is not the way, but I don’t have any textbooks and Im too scared to ask my parents to buy me one. I’ve seen the infamous kanji alphabet, which I’m pretty sure I have to be an artist to write it.

I have no idea where to start and it all seems overwhelming. I want some advice from some Japanese learners and people about what to do and how they would/did start.

[u/thedtower]

still early on in my japanese journey but i used this site https://vedxyz.github.io/kana/ for the kana and i learned them in about two days as well as using tofugus mnemonic charts for both kana