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I recomend you buy a book..

Most people here will recomend you buy GENKI for learning Japanese.. but its over rated and expensive.

I recomend a book called "Japanese for busy people" and you can pick it up very cheap on ebay for example.

As for learning hiragana, google a hiragana table and copy out the first line on a blank sheet of paper, then try write it without looking, keep trying untill you get it right (also, try to say the phonetic sound of each symbol while you write them, it makes it stick better).

when you can do the first line, try doing the first 2 lines, then the first 3 then 4 etc etc. Then move on to katakana. with this method, i was reading and writing, in.. ooo.. less than a week? 20mins a day.. not even that.