Learing transliterations of Japanese is easy, writing in actual characters is a bitch D: German is pretty easy to pick up, however the hard part is remembering when you use female, male or neutral articles and how to use proper grammar, (there's weird word order).
Though... Japanese is extremely systematic, so that also makes it kinda easy.
The english has only one, nederlands has 2 and we have 3.
He has subscribed for a kind of student language year , down in Nagoya.