So I haven't told you guys it yet (idk how I forgot), but I am learning Japanese! I'm in a Japan obsession right now (I go in and out of obsessions, but this one is like real). I've learned all of the Hiragana in Japanese (48 Kanas). If you didn't know (of course you didn't, and don't think you do, cause you don't), Japanese consists of three (or four) writing systems.

The main Japanese writing system is Hiragana, which I have learned all of. Hiragana is used to write okurigana (Kana suffixes following a Kanji root), various grammatical and function words including particles, as well as miscellaneous other native words for which there are no Kanji or whose Kanji form is too formal or obscure for the writing purpose. Words that do have common Kanji renditions may also sometimes be written in Hiragana. Hiragana is also used to write furigana, a reading aid that shows the pronunciation of Kanji characters.

You can tell it's Hiragana if the characters look curvy and fun and wavy.

Another writing system is Katakana, which is used mainly to spell foreign words in Japanese, however it can be used to make a word look "cool". Katakana is also used for representing onomatopoeia, for emphasis on certain words, and the names of plants. I'm gonna learn Katakana next (it also consists of 48 Kanas; it has the same sounds but different writings than Hiragana.

You can tell it's Katakana if the characters have sharp points and lines.

A more rare writing system is the Romanization of Japanese, or Romaji. It is basically the pronunciation of Japanese Kanas; it is Japanese written as Roman/English letters. It is used mainly to type Kanas into technology and to communicate better with a foreign person.

You can tell it's Romaji if it has English letters, duh!

The last writing system is Kanji, which is basically Japanese influenced Chinese characters. Kanji is used to write parts of the Japanese language such as nouns, adjective stems, and verb stems. The hard part is that Chinese/Kanji has no alphabet(s). Kanji is literally the one pain in the neck about learning Japanese. In Japanese schools, from grades 1 and up, students learn 5-10 Kanji every day. Like I said, pain in the neck. (A good thing would to just completely eliminate it altogether. North Korea got rid of all their Chinese, and South Korea only uses 200-300 Chinese characters. Now they just use Korean.)

You can tell it's Kanji if the characters are large and complex.

To be considered fluent in Japanese, you have to know all of the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets (which you can actually learn in 1 week, or 1 day even.) and 2,000+ Kanji characters. A professor or high educated Japanese person can know about 3,000 Kanji.

A dream of mine would be to go to Japan one day (mainly Tokyo, but anywhere really, as long as it's Japan!). If I ever do completely learn Japanese and I go to Japan one day, I'll be able to read everything there, communicate there, write there, and it will be awesome! I'll also be able to watch anime without English subtitles (which I don't currently watch anime, I'm debating about it).

Sorry this became more like an informational lecture rather than a quick update! XD
Hope you learned something though!