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If you're interested in learning Japanese, don't think about it and just do it. By that I mean, find something that you're passionate about/can get passionate over that's JP related, then slowly work your way up in learning the language.
Start with hiragana, katakana, then watch some anime (if anime's your thing) or read some books and try to familiarize yourself with some basic terms and expressions, then learn the sentence structures, verb usage, etc. Go download some JP dictionaries, look up basic terms and expressions, and try to remember them. You can move on to kanji once you feel like you're able to familiarize stroke radicals and the like. You can start off learning by yourself on your own pace, then progress to formal learning once you think you need some formal guidance in order to progress further.
It's not as impossible as some people make it out to be, and fearing kanjis is akin to fearing an unabriged English dictionary. Once you get over this mental conditioning/block that learning JP is so difficult, you'll find it can be quite entertaining as long as you approach it with the right mindset that suits your learning style/curve. After all, translators don't pop out of thin air.
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