It is more difficult than learning to speak Japanese is though . Japanese is made up of three sets of characters.
Characters are the equivalent to letters in English.
The three sets of characters are hiragana, katakana, and kanji. There is also one more set of characters which is known as romaji. This set uses English letters to write Japanese words. It is very seldom used by Japanese people and we don't recommend you use it too often in your Japanese studies because using English letters to spell Japanese words causes your pronounciation to be a little unnatural. There are only 46 hiragana characters.