She already does Spanish for me (she is half Puerto Rican and half Spanish) I can ask no more of her lol

I was thinking about learning japanese too
and alot of my freinds had great success learning languages with babble
sadly there is no japanese on babble but there is another option called busuu

www.busuu.com

maybe that is an option for you

Well Norway is as you might know one of the largest oil exporters in the world, and the platforms in the North sea have loads of foreigners, from many countries. Some frome Poland and the surrounding countries mostly to do hard physical work, but there is a lot of "experts" and the likes coming from other countries to show us how they do it, and vice versa. Also Norway is trading loads of fish to Japan, have tons of Japanese tourists and we also get a lot of top notch technology from there.

But that's mostly stuff I tell myself to start learning it. I'll probably end up using it 99% for gaming, unless I ended up going to Japan for some sort of project (happends sometimes).   

yea that "basic hiragana syllables" and "additional sounds" table are the most important

Katakana work the same way, so that should be easy to add aswell

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.

Any advice on the best way to memorize them? I should memorize the Hiragana symbols and the English letter/letters that go with them to where I can look at the Hiragana symbol and know the English letter/s that go with them?

hiragana is the alphabet standard. Think of it as writing cursive, except you would write in cursive all the time
katakana is a stylized alphabet. Think of it as writing typeface except you would only use it for people's names, cool things, and foreign words
Kanji is the pictograph. Every word can be written in any three ways (for the most part)

Kanji is like....classic words...core fundamental words. Rice, cow, animal, place, house, etc. There are very few kanji for newer things. That is where katakana comes in.

When a kanji is used for many words, there are often endings done in hiragana. liiike eating is "taberu", which is also "tabemasu". In kanji, the symbol only stands for the sound "tabe", because as you can see, endings change to say different things. There is:
taberu
tabemasu
tabemasuka
taberaremasu
tabesaseraremasu

As you can see the only core part of the word that never changes is tabe...therefore, because kanji doesn't change, it only takes the place of tabe. Then you add the endings with cursive, so you get:

[Kanji] ru
or
[kanji] masu

These are some common kanji for the most part, but I doubt you'd see a lot of kanji in Japanese games -- so forget about it before you're able to understand written Japanese text in kana -- if you're planning to read more than just a few inscriptions, of course.

Read some introduction in Japanese or smth so you'd understand what people are saying to you, because what I'm getting from the above posts you can't distinguish kana from kanji.

start with a, i, u, e, o (yes the vowel order is different in JP.
then do ka, ki, ku, ke, ko
then sa, shi, su, se, so

etc. Learn to write them. Use flash cards to help. Also will probably take longer than a day. It is a huge amount of information to absorb through something that may be extremely foreign to how you've been brought up to think.

Also; pronunciation is different as well.

a i u e o
is pronounced
a as in father
i as in eat
u as in the second part of the u sound in cute. not the 'you' sound but the trailing short ooh
e as in feather
o in first faux

Thank you all for all of your help. I am going to start memorizing the characters. Will report back soon