That's essentially me. I tried duolingo but  that shit was useless. But now I've found Mango languages. Except it's expensive, unless you do it through your library. Public Libraries to the fucking rescue, my friend. Seriously, highly recommended for all starting out with languages, and for me, a man restarting many languages, it's good for that too. 

btw, on a side note, people who want to talk to other humans, iTalki and Hellotalk are apparently good apps with which you can talk to people from other countries. Of course, you have to pay for those, but that makes sense. Enjoy!

Also, sad tale about mixed race people in Japan. Of course, I've been noticing a lot of anti-mixed stuff online here in the states. Odd eugenics arguments of purity. Not that I think there are some issues and there is a history, but the old (and racist new south stuff I heard in the south) picture of Muslim Brotherhood and the KKK marching for the same anti-race mixing stuff comes to mind. Now it seems that the purity claim is back on the menu and I find much of it laughable, mainly cause it portrays my existence (not only as white genocide) as impure in some way. Just look here. Seems like Japan is worse, though.