The Ghost of RubangB on 09 March 2008
You can subscribe to the Japanese101 podcast. It's pretty good. Nothing helps more than conversational practice though. So if you're just gonna use the podcast, you gotta listen to every single day, like a good hour or 2 every day without ever taking a day off. If you and a friend do it together you can practice and that helps.
There are good web sites to teach you the "alphabets" and kanji too, but for those you gotta use flash cards, and you have to write them a million times a day, and then practice reading every day.
IT'S HELL.
