>>7
We're on an English message board asking about learning a foreign language. Saying it isn't his mother language is down-right stupid. He also obviously speaks English so it's relevant no matter what.
>>8
How the hell does German help Japanese? It doesn't.
Characters are easy as pie? Sounds like someone who only knows maybe 500 at best. Here's a hint, when you get to like 1200-1500, learning the rest gets that much harder because those last kanji are seriously never used. Even if you learn 2000 kanji there's still tons of other ones you will see like 徘徊/桶/槌/etc.
Mastering the kanji alone is harder than learning a language like Spanish for a native of English.