Japanese is very similar to Korean in word order, grammar, and vocabulary.
If you are learning or have learned Korean, you can easily learn Japanese.

Japanese characters are made up of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.

Don't be surprised, there are no spaces like in English or Korean!
You won't be surprised, right?

"アメリカから来ました。"
It means "(I'm) From America."
There are no spaces, right?

The reason there are no spaces is that particles and kanji make it easy to distinguish individual words.

Japanese uses kanji.
Therefore, learning Japanese makes it easier to learn Chinese.
That's truly great news, isn't it?

However! There is a problem!
Kanji is difficult to memorize.
Wait, what did you say??

But don't worry!
We can speak Japanese without memorizing all the kanji!

You've all seen the symbols above somewhere before, haven't you?
Even without memorizing them, you already know what they mean.

This is the kanji meaning 'mountain'.
It models the shape of a mountain into a symbol.
What do you think? Simple, isn't it?

First piece of good news!
Elementary school-level books and manga have reading aids (furigana) written above the kanji.

Second piece of good news!
Nowadays, thanks to smartphones and PCs, you can easily search for kanji even if you don't know them.
What a relief!

In fact, you don't need to memorize everything!
As long as you can tell their shapes apart, you'll be fine!

Now, you're starting to feel more confident in Japanese, aren't you?
Even Japanese people look up kanji on their smartphones when they don't know them.
So as you keep practicing, what once felt like secret code will become natural to read.

→ Japanese is best learned by:
1. Looking,
2. Listening, and
3. Writing it down
to memorize it!

Simple, right?
You'll get the hang of it as you practice!