Japanese in five ideas
1. Three scripts in one sentence
私はコーヒーを飲みます "I drink coffee": kanji carry meaning (私, 飲), hiragana carry grammar (は, を, みます), katakana spell foreign words (コーヒー).
2. The verb comes last
Subject, object, verb: 私はパンを食べます "I bread eat". Everything leads up to the verb.
3. Small particles mark the roles
は marks the topic, を the object, に where something goes: 学校に行きます "I go to school". The particle, not the position, says who does what.
4. Politeness lives in the verb
食べる and 食べます both mean "eat"; the second is polite. Start with the ます form — it is safe with everyone.
5. No plurals, no articles
本 is "book", "a book", "the book" and "books". Context does the work.
Practise it with someone
Your Japanese partner writes to you first — about their own day, with photographs from wherever they are — and what you got wrong comes back struck through, with the right version beside it. Every word is tappable.