I'm sorry for keeping things off-topic here, but I don't think that Japanese is hard at all. I considered learning it just so that I could understand JAV (yes, seriously), and although I don't remember much now, the grammar seemed pretty straightforward.
Also, I totally agree with hatsupaw, hiragana and katakana are really easy to pick up. Kanji would definitely take time, but I wouldn't say that it's hard to learn kanji, it just, like I said, takes time.
But I don't mean to offend anyone here, what is easy for someone might be hard for someone else, there's nothing wrong with that.
And since I'm already way off topic here, I tried to use quote but when I clicked "Quote" I just got a pop-up that said "Message added to multi-quote" instead of the quote showing up in this field. I swear I couldn't figure out how to do it, it's not just to demonstrate my point above!