I am Japanese learning English. We can help each other.

I'm chinese, I can speak Mandarin. and I've worked in japan for about 1 year, I can also speak japanese, but not native speaker level. I'm learning English now.

Konnichiwa, Niish. I hope you are well. In my experience, when learning a foreign language, it is better to thoroughly study the first couple chapters "serious" college level textbook first. (You know, the basics: to eat, to drink, to think, to know, to read, to write, to listen/hear, to speak, to study plus a handful of everyday nouns.)I just talk to others to ask questions about colloquial expressions, to fill in the blanks if I am not getting it or review. For Spanish I used the Destinos. It is a college level course built around a 90's era soap opera (very interesting) that takes you throughout the Spanish world. Destinos has 1 textbook, 2 workbooks and 2 sets of CDs. You can by the DVD for the series or watch the videos, also get a headstart for free, here http://learner.org/series/destinos/ For Japanese, I use Genki. This series is the best Japanese language textbook for native English speakers. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genki-Integrated-Course-Elementary-Japanese/dp/4789009637 Before Genki was Japanese for Busy People--absolute nightmare. I have tried Rosetta Stone several times. There have been many improvements and the best thing it has over other methods of self-study is that you constantly hear the language and begin to think in the phrases. I say phrases rather than language because I do not think it goes deep enough, often enough or fast enough. Namely, not enough time is spent with conjugation and pronouns. It's a little pricey for what you are getting. I hope that helped. Thank you for reading this whole thing. Best of luck.