08-09-2010, 10:53 AM
I'm also learning Japanese. I'm going into my junior year in high school, and I'll be taking my 3rd year of Japanese. I think the classes teach relatively slow, but it's great how much you can understand when you know the kana, a decent amount of vocabulary, and some kanji. It's helped me when I download MUGEN characters from Japanese websites. I'm not really into anime or Japan's culture that much, but I think the language is very cool to speak and listen and read. Plus, my only alternative was Spanish, which I dislike.