So liek, Japanese...

[VincentCraven]

Hey Zodiac, are you still learning Japanese? I am interested in learning a bit, but I didn't know any good sites. Where are/were you learning Japanese?

Chances are I probably won't get far, since I hear it's a hard language to learn, but anyway...

[Xifanie]

That's a bad lie... a lot people tend to say that but the only thing that can be considered hard would be learning the kanji and maybe the fact that there are no spaces.

The grammatical structure is ridiculously simple.

Anayway I'll shoot you my english links after school, I don't remember them by heart (as I use mainly . I may recommend you a few programs too like Ruby for firefox or another one I prefer which is Rikai-Chan; IIRC.

Well i can give you this link for now but it won't do any good as it only contains translated sentences.

But this is going to be a major tool when studying Japanese:
http://tatoeba.fr/?site_lg=en

I also translate from japanese/english to french on that site.

If you want to learn hirigana/katakana there is Jdrill & Slime Forest (which also has kanji later)

Slime Forest puts a lot on pressure on you as if you take too much time to answer or answer the wrong thing, a slime may call for another slime or hamedo you. PS: don't wander in the cave too early.

[karsten]

i attended a japanese course, and wouldn't mind re-freshing my memory please zodiac share with us all the good links and programs you get ok?

by the way, vincent, you have PM

[Kourama]

Yeah I took a japanese course as well. I agree with Zodiac learning the kanji is definitely the difficult part.

[Xifanie]

Gaah! I wish I had that chance. They teach English here, hardly Spanish, even less Mandarin as secondary languages but nothing else at all.

http://japanese.about.com/
Contains a lot of information but may be hard to find exactly what you are looking for.

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/
For grammar

When you are pretty fluent with the language, you may start having conversations with people whose original language is the one you're stdudying. However, you'll learn at the price of teaching the same amount of time: http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/.

Understand that my main language is french so I tend to head for french sites when it comes to learn words and grammar.

Personally, I don't recommend learning romaji. It's confusing, and the Japanese doesn't even know about it. Plus if you install the Japanese IME, you're not gonna type romaji to turn it into JP characters; they're going to be alphanumerized JP chars. In fact, I can't write/read romaji myself or make it sound good at least.