Trouble learning Japanese?

Question:

I started learning Japanese in college this year but I find learning the alphabets very difficult...tips?

Answer:

It's ok. This concept takes a while to get used to. You're probably talking mostly about hiragana right now, right? So, firstly, start off with memorizing the first five a, i, u, e and o. Write these out a few times on a piece of paper until you memorize it by heart. Try your best to remember how to pronounce it too. Then do the same for the k, s, t, n, h, m, y, r, and w section. Learning the Japanese alphabet characters is all about memorization and practice. After you've mastered hiragana, you can move onto katakana, which is used for loan words (foreign words). After you've mastered that as well, you can move well into grammar, verb structure, sentence structure, and KANJI. Kanji will be slightly more difficult, unless you have some kind of Chinese background. Kanji are basically chinese words used in japanese, and the way to memorize them is to write the kanji onto a piece of paper first. Then write it out as many times as you need until you feel you know it. Then find the pronunciation of the word, associate it with the character, then learn the meaning. Try doing at least 10 kanji per day with this method. Then after you feel you've learnt all ten, cover up the meaning and pronunciation and try to guess it, or vice versa (cover up the kanji and guess the kanji)
Good luck with Japanese :D