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its gonna cost money, probably for starters around 100 bucks or so. Get yourself a japanese language textbook series. I personally recommend genki.

If you dont use genki, then use one that stresses vocab, grammar, and ESPECIALLY KANJI, even today, this is the most neglected aspect of learning Japanese. To read anything with ease, you need to memorize a lot of kanji. just being realistic.

You CAN teach yourself, it is possible. This girl in my Japanese class is a year younger than me, and she taught herself. whats more, she is without a doubt better than anyone who came up through the ranks of my school's education, she's just... ridiculous (yeah I kind of have a crush on her based solely on how easy she makes Japanese at a higher level look).

kanbatte, ne.