Originally Posted by
Quibi
I've been studying Japanese for a while now. Technology really helps you know. If you have android phone you must download Obenkyo. It's a Kanji writing practice app that let's you type Kanji using touch screen and actually corrects you if you use the wrong stroke order. From my experience it's much more effective to memorize Kanji by writing, even if you aim for reading.
I've also been using rosetta stone and while the pace is slow, it's pretty fun and makes you talk a bit (speech is my favorite part! I have no one else to talk to...)
There's a great article on fuwanovel (I'll post the link later) that suggests how to set up visual novels to work dictionaries. This is probably the best thing I did. It's super fun (though tiring at times) and it's a great reading experience.
For Grammer I used Tae Kim which is pretty good, though I'd you wanna get better intuition about that stuff then use rosetta.
There's also an app (forgot name, will edit later) for chatting with other language learners. Great idea, though finding an enthusiastic partner can prove to be difficult.
Overall I've studied about 700 Kanji and some basic grammar. It takes a while until you start seeing results, but it kinda fun.
Unfortunately since uni started this year I have no time to even practice Kanji. I like Japanese more than math ._.