I have decided (again) to really make this a priority for me personally. If I’m going to teach my son to speak in Japanese, I need to learn it first… or rather teach him as I learn it. Really learn it. Waiting for him to learn it is not going to happen. I could go that route but I really would like to see him succeed at this and hey, I’ve got the littler one to teach too. Lets just hope the language she chooses will be at least latin based!
I’m using iKnow.com and making flash cards of the vocab that I can read through before I go to bed and I’m going to spend 30 minutes in the morning before everyone gets up studying vocab and characters.
Discovered edufire.com (enrolled in a free class) and tofugu.com lately. Through the second one I found a way to find more free Japanese podcasts on iTunes. I’m listening to Osaka FM right now. I can recognize more words than I can remember the meaning of but I guess that is a start.
I keep hearing conflicting advise on which to learn first: hiragana or katakana. We’ve learned a little of both and I’m not sure which way would be the best to proceed.
Oh, and I’m a “twit” now. Tofugu suggested it as a good way to learn Japanese by following Japanese twit-erers. Well, I can’t figure out how to find them. 
Need to ask him.
Hope you enjoy eduFire! To find Japanese twitterers just go to the “everyone” page on Twitter (where all updates show up). Keep refreshing and you’ll definitely see some, though some times are better. Japanese is the #2 language on Twitter, and actually really common, so you shouldn’t run into too much trouble if you try that. Cheers, and thanks for the shoutout!
Thanks Koichi! I will try the everyone page.
Your site is great and I hope I get to take one of your classes one day. Or if not me, then my son will!