Just finished the first lesson in Textfugu. It was an overview of the four different japanese alphabets. Can you believe it, 4 different alphabets. Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji and the newest, and least used, romanji. Romanji is japanese written out using the letters we are all familiar with. But since there are several different schools of thought on how to write using romanji it is best to save learning it till much later.
Textfugu has me starting off with Hiragana. wish me luck.