Also, if there are any Japanese movies you can recommend. If there aren't too much slang used, and has a setting that of a typical Japanese environment - that would be great. I previously tried some anime like one piece - but it had so much slang on it. A lot of anime I have seen had so much slang on them and some vocabulary that I probably would never use. lol. Or if there's anime that's not weird, that would be great too. :)

I'm now ok with Hiragana and Katakana (i think.. LOL) I've been writing my notes using Hiragana's and some Kanji from Tae Kim's. I try to avoid as much as I can using any English on anything that I write. I also downloaded the app "Lingo Deer" and put the setting in Kanji so I would be used to seeing it. About the intonation - this one I don't exactly have a way of knowing if I'm doing it wrong. I have only been mimicking the videos and audios I have - as accurate as I can. I find that the Japanese sounds are relatively ok to mimic - so much easier than other languages. I'm fairly new to italki, and I currently don't have native friends yet. If you need help with English, I might be of help to you. :D (just offering:D)

lol, Benjamin speaks well. It's weird that nobody is correcting his pronunciation, nor working on fluency. You also hear some Japanese people mixing their dialect accents... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frTm94LmvMI She's good :D but she has developed English accent in her native Japanese LOL xD

I would start with GENKI and use Tae Kim as a guide to it. Also, start with practicing tracing on Hiragana and first Kanjis like 人、一、二、日、木、林、森、　the first grade kanjis. Don't get into the habit of using wrong intonation, accents, high low pitch, and make your Japanese native friends correct every mistake from the very beginning. This is my opinion after having seen/heard the first westerner obtaining the highest level of Kanken which is the highest exam for Kanji that exists. He has lots of accents, and it makes me wonder why nobody corrected him when there are so many foreigners who speak without any accent especially in the major city centers.

Do you think I should jump straight into Chapter 4 (in Tae Kims' Guide)? - Chapter 3 was ok. It was relatively simple - the grammar I mean, though the vocabulary was particularly difficult to absorb.