Anyone studying japanese?

So is anyone where studying the Japanese Language or Culture? I enjoy Japanese Culture and I personally find the actual language itself to be very attractive. I've been studying for a year or two, with some print outs of basic Kanji and the entire Hiragana and Katakana writing systems( Found them through Google. ) nailed to the wall beside where I sit. Is anyone else doing something similar? I'm curious

Yes, I always get the temptation to continue, but then I end up doing something else, which is usually what happens; I know some basics but not enough for a normal conversation.. Ahaha. It would be useful though, Animes wouldn't need subs and VN's wouldn't need translations. But the language itself is pretty complex. Don't use a program like Rosetta Stone for it though, there was A LOT of errors I noticed in the lessons.

Thanks, I was curious what a good learning program would be. Anime is only good at teaching me words but doesn't help with sentence structure.

Well my tip is don't use a learning program itself, but read pages on the internet. For me I use these: http://japanese-lesson.com/ http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/ I did use Rosetta Stone as I said, but the pronunciation was incoherent in some lessons; Which if you were going to Japan people wouldn't really understand you. If you can get yourself some Japanese Pod 101 lessons they're useful as well; But they're not free. They may not help in every aspect, but they provide enough information to get you started.

Anime does help with basic words, but the thing is some things that happen in Anime aren't usually the same conversations that you'll see in real life. Anime can teach you words, but in Japanese everything from your voice tone, to your choice of words can affect a conversation. Yes, I too have Japanese friends. One of which is a colleague(Close friend who helps me with my hobbies sort of thing). It helps a lot, especially if they offer help to teach you.

This is true! Learning about the culture is super important when making interactions, but usually if you make a mistake, you can have it brushed off as a "gaijin faux pas" or as I've heard it called, "Gaijin Pass." I think some other important points are learning particles and conjugation, though.

Correct. The most mistakes I've made and my friends have made hasn't been the actual pronunciation or vocabulary, but the overall structure of the sentence using the particles because it's completely different then the English structure.