I’m using Pimsleur.  That is how I got started into Japanese.  It was for fun at first and then it has gotten serious.  I’m at Pimsleur Japanese II Lesson 27.  I listen to it while driving to work.  It has 3 levels and each level has 30 lessons.  Each lesson is 30 minutes in length.

It was hard at first because I don’t know the grammar yet.  I learned the grammar after reading  Tae Kim’s free Japanese grammar online.  From then on listening to Pimsleur and understanding it got easier.  It is really good if you want to learn conversational Japanese.

Then I signed up for Textfugu to learn the Kanji.  I also found an online language partner.  She lives in Japan.  I found the website from Tae Kim’s website.  Hope that helps.  Cheers.

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