Best way to learn to read Japanese?

[Mr Khan]

mai said:

d21lewis said:

How hard is Japanese? Nintendo is a Japanese company and people STILL aren't 100% sure if the word "Nintendo" means "Leave Luck to Heaven"--not even the Japanese.

Not really ;) the writing is the major obstacle for 'white barbarians', but as a person with second native being Tatar any agglutinative language is intuitively understandable for me. But if you're only an English speaker it might be a bit harder for you.

Tatar is like Japanese second cousin, right? Tatar related to Khalka Mongol, which is related to Korean and Japanese.