Try this web site : http://japaneseclass.jp/ Personally I bought a book in japanese and a kanji dictionnary in order to understand kanjis in contest, it helped me a lot. But the problem with book is pronunciation we can't assure that this is the correct pronunciation. (Excuse my bad english )

Of course I would! I know Japanese is one of the crazy language. Haha

Try this Website! http://www.gwu.edu/~eall/vjg/vjghomepage/vjghome.htm Also I have a grammar book called "Japanese Sentence patterns for effective communication" by Taeko Kamiya And I would also try the website/app called "Human Japanese," the guy who wrote it took a lot of care into making it and he does a really good job explaining things that are kinda confusing at first. And a tip for you: start learning the kanji now, there are a lot of them! But only learn them as you learn vocabulary, don't just study the kanji by themselves. If you do you will start to get ideas about the language but won't be able to communicate without the proper context. 頑張って！＾＾