My learning experience for Japanese:
I took a half a year (school year) class last year in college and tried to learn the basics of Japanese. I had to drop out of the class a month before the class started b/c I was still in high school at the time and high school math was killing me. I went online not too long ago and stumbled on a vid of a dude translating for a Japanese guy. I checked out the guy's channel and was amazed at how many languages he knew and he was 28. He was a polyglot that knew like 10 languages, Japanese being one of them. I checked out his other videos and saw him speaking different languages in different videos. I was even more surprised that he learned the languages on his own. I was not open-minded enough to believe that one could not learn a language on their own and had to be through school. So I have taken it upon myself to learn Japanese on my own.
I learned hiragana at school, but I'm having a hard time with some symbols so I have decided to start from scratch and just barely started grinding. I bought the book called, "Japanese the Manga way," and am planning to buy two kodansha dictionaries. Idk if its proper to ask in this thread, but my eagerness is going to make me ask anyway: Any suggestions on learning Japanese right after I learn Hiragana and Katakana?