I've been learning Japanese seriously for the last 2 weeks using duolingo, got added to a friends family plan so I get premium for free basically, Gives me extra incentive to use it often since I'm mooching off of someone else.

It slow progress as I'm only doing one or two exercises a day but it's started to stick.

I think once I'm past the most basics of stuff and reasonably comfortable with hiragana I'll start added other resources into the mix like NHK world and some other sites I've been recommended.

My reason is also because I indulge in Japanese Culture on the daily watching anime and the likes.

I hope to at least get to a point where I can comfortably use Japanese mostly in reading, then I think my progress will speed up as I expose myself to more and more Japanese content.