I'm currently studying Japanese in my spare time, haven't got far enough to be able to speak fluently yet - only learnt how to read katakana/hiragana, which isn't saying much because that's the easiest bit. I used http://smart.fm/home for learning kana and currently using to learn kanji, although there are literally 100's…
Ran across this site a while back, and its basically a rough guide of how a guy went about learning Japanese to a fluent level. Lots of links and resources. He's also got a lot of great motivational posts to keep you motivated if you check through the archives and read a lot of his posts.…