Is it hard to learn Japanese

I wanna learn how but I'm afraid, mostly from the different characters.

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German pronounciation [sic] is pretty much identical to Japanese
I'm German and... lol no. Perhaps you pronounce the two languages identically, I certainly don't. And neither do the Japanese, or any German who doesn't want to make a total ass of himself.

I do agree with you that Japanese isn't harder than any other natural language and that learning kanji isn't as terrible as it may sound, though.