[JISE]

I just started learning. For me the hardest part is writing the symbols.
These are the books I have been using along with a Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary :
Amazon.com: Jimi's Book of Japanese: A Motivating Method to Learn Japanese (Hiragana): Books: Peter X. Takahashi,Yumie Toka
Amazon.com: Japanese in Mangaland: Basic Japanese Course Using Manga: Books: Marc Bernabe