What is the best way to learn japanese (read and write) for free and under a high school schedule?

Question

I would like to move there or go as an exchange student but i will have to read and write some to go. What is the best way (books show etc.) i cant really do study groups and I have a low budget any advice?

Answer 1

A new dictionary for Kanji usage

Like $10 on Amazon.com

Random House Japanese dictionary

Like $10 on Amazon

George and Keiko Show on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/user/yesjapan

Uminekomiami

http://www.youtube.com/user/uminekomiami

Answer 2

There are some OK introductory Japanese lessons available on youtube.

Search "Japanese lesson" or "speak Japanese"

Answer 3

Hmm, I think that if you have a tight high school schedule, then maybe learning online would be the best idea. Here are some sites that are quite useful:

http://www.italki.com/

http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/

( Hahas, sorry I'm too lazy to get more. But you could always search "Learn Japanese Online" or "Learn Japanese for Free" in a search engine)

Hehes, I'm also trying to learn Japanese. ( although it's not for education purposes. XD)

And I go to this site.

http://www.japanesepod101.com/

I personally think it's really helpful. There are audio lessons for you to hear, and there's quite a lot of them. And then if you pay a certain amount of money (I don't think it's THAT much, but I'm not sure) there are lesson notes that show you how to speak even better and such. You get a 7 day trial for free though.  

( I'm too cheap to pay for those things, so I just lesson to the audio videos. They're quite helpful too )

HOPE I HELPED!

Good luck! <3