MANY people have asked me what I do to learn Japanese, and this shows you my resources! This fall I'm going off to college to be a Japanese major, so I'll FINALLY take some classes! Rejoice!

Just don't ever give up. Learning a new language is such an adventure, because you never know exactly what you'll learn any given day. :)

**GAH! Youtube kills my quality so much...

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*BOOKS:
"Learn Japanese The Fast and Fun Way"
By Carol and Nobuo Akiyama

"Schaum's Outlines of Japanese Grammar"
By Keiko Uesawa Chevray and Tomiko Kuwahira

"Japanese Grammar"
By Carol and Nobuo Akiyama

"250 Essential Kanji for Everyday Use, Volume 1"
By University of Tokyo Kanji Text Research Group

*DICTIONARIES:
"Random House Japanese-English/English-Japanese Dictionary"
By Seigo Nakao

"The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary"
By Jack Halpern

*MAGAZINES
Get Famitsu here:
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/magazine/detail_mag.html?KEY=7863

I ordered the Zelda mangas off of Ebay. Try your luck there!

*DVDS
Try:
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/
http://www.yesasia.com/us/en/home.html

COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Rosetta Stone
http://www.rosettastone.com/

*OTHER USEFUL WEBSITES
http://www.livemocha.com
A very good language learning site. Has many Japanese courses.

http://thejapanesepage.com/
I mostly use this for the kanji. Has a very fun culture section.

http://nihongo.j-talk.com/parser/
Kanji and kana romanizer!

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/
The best online translator that I've found. It's only in Japanese. Don't trust it TOO much, however.

http://www.epochrypha.com/japanese/verbs/verbs.html
A really good reference for Japanese verbs. Search through his site, he has some other great resources.

http://iteslj.org/v/j/
Some good vocab quizzes.

http://www.readthekanji.com/
Easily one of the best learn-kanji sites I've come across. (less info)