Before I got into javascript, I thought it sounded pretty foreign. I've used c, c++, Java, vb, php, etc. I thought it was some sort of scripting language based off of Java. Boy, when I started getting into it, it was super easy, and not half bad. Once you get some dev utils for FireFox, such as firebug, you can easily see the DOM, and how it makes so much sense. Very easy to modify things using DHTML, and once you get a javascript framework like prototype and some add-on libraries like scriptaculous, you're in business. Prototype is simple, just give it a try.