Best way to study Japanese

Don’t study the written basics without some supervision. Although it’s pretty easy to teach yourself the finite syllabaries of hiragana and katakana, the essential stroke order is often casually discarded by language learning newbies. In English, writing your letters oddly is just a character quirk; in Japan it will be assumed that you couldn’t be bothered to learn it correctly. Don’t skip what’s hard. It’s easy to just think, “I’ll go back to that chapter I skipped,” but in reality you probably won’t. The first lessons are about family titles, telling time and particles. Basic conversations in textbooks often use time and family as topics, and mastering particles takes far longer to than it initially seems like it should. Watch plenty of cartoons, movies, dramas and listen/sing to plenty of music but do not do only this! Japanese has increased in popularity with young adults overseas thanks to anime, manga (comics), and Japanese rock and pop music. Many fans want to read and understand without waiting for official translations, so they take on the task of translating manga or lyrics word-by-word. Do practice singing in Japanese and following along with lyrics. Following lyrics will help you recognize kana and kanji, increase your reading speeds and, of course, teach you how Japanese should really sound.

Hello! For Kanji, all I can say is practice as often as possible. Usually reading is a lot easier than writing. Make sure you write in order! Also, if you want to go the extra mile for memorizing them, learn what each symbol in the kanji means. Or even come up with your own techniques. (ie, motsu and matsu...matsu has the same first part as iku, it relates to time, so it means "to wait". for motsu, the second part of the kanji means hand...if it is in your hand, it's yours..."to have") For Japanese in general, make sure you focus a lot on the particles and verb endings. If you get past those, you can probably figure out what the sentence is saying. For fun, watch drama, anime and listen to music. If you don't understand something, go look up the translations and such. You will get to work on your listening skills. Drama's especially usually have formal and informal forms, compared to anime which usually mainly has informal.

well i envy you...since you can enroll yourself in a japanese language learning school..i haven't gone in those learning institute because i have no budget..but im learning a few of their language thru listening to their music and watching anime with subs..but i think it isn't enough since i don't know how to write...well i just have to say good luck in studying...

I recommend Heisig's method for learning Kanji since for me it's the best method in learning Kanji. I learned to read and write 2000+ Kanji characters in less than 4 months and I am still not forgetting them until now. I think the best method in learning Japanese is to start from the Kanji first. Of course before that you must learn how to read and write in Hiragana and Katakana too which I thinik is the easiest in the language. Once you've learned how to read Japanese, learning to write and speak and listen becomes a breeze since you can now read Japanese magazines, newspapers, books and some other reading materials which will undoubtedly flourish your understand and speaking in Japanese. Just read and read and read until the the most of the words won't sound foreign to you anymore. The vocabulary word is an ongoing process. Make sure to study all the unfamiliar words you encounter while you are reading.