Good luck! I am using duolingo to try to learn japanese, I also know a bunch of langugages including one with non-latin characters. And I don't want to scare you but Kana is challenging!! since they have symbols for single vowels but also for consonant-vowel combination lol like ka , sa etc. I am suffering a bit, lol maybe have your smartphone close to you to help you in your day a day life
You can't scare me :)
At my age and stage of life I am not easily scared :) I only started so ignorance is bliss.
You are used to other languages that is good, because you know that it can be different from all the other languages! Also something that I am learning how to deal is the order of the elements of the sentences change a bit, the verb is coming after the subject and adjective. It is an interesting language, I just started because we hosted a Japanese student at home this year and I got curious about it.
SOV
That's the model.