Can someone recommend some good materials for Japanese self study?

Well there is the resource list on the italki learning Japanese pages:
http://www.italki.com/resources/7/learn_japanese_in_english.htm

Yeah, I was wondering if anyone knew about an online Japanese school?

(sorry about the underlining.. not sure how to stop that.)

www.genkijapan.net is always good =)
I know this topic is old, I just like reccomending things.
www.talksushi.com is good to.
And www.edufire.com is an online school. ^_^

I like the book Genki for self-studying.
They have some resources up on their site:
http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/index.en.html

I would recommend "Pimsleur's Japanese" and "Rosette Stones" materials.

I'm studying with Pimsleur's and it helps me alot.
I also have the notes for all the 3levels in Pimsleurs Japanese 1 2 3.

put the audio tracks in your mp3/ipod and print the notes so you can study on the train/buss or on your free time at the job.

if you buy pimsluer japanese on the internet it will cost you around 800USD total.
so try find a friend and ask him/her to send you the audio tracks + notes.

I hope you can all the Hiragana and Katakana.. if not study them at www.yesjapan.com good games to help you remember the symbols.
It will take you max 1 week :) then go on with the pimsleur japanese finish the 3 level they have then go for Rosette Stones and repeat..

if you like to have more information, mail me :)

Hi,

Try using Genki series books or Erin´s Challenge. The one I would never recommend is Minna no Nihongo because it has poor grammatical notes and bad translations. So with the ones I have already told you, think you will be ok.

Cheers

may i suggest www.japanesepod101.com

their material is just gr8, they have thousands of podcast like audio clips, with PDF notes, try their stuff 1st, just check out their free clips on iTunes, and if u like it then go for it ^^

Thank you for all your help everyone. Your suggestions are great support to my Japanese study.

http://www.renshuu.org/
My favorite site for self-study. Has pre-built lessons for most of the popular textbooks such as Genki and Japanese for Busy People, plus material for JLPT and Kanji Kentai.

Thank you all for your suggestion everyone!

I just remembered that there are a ton of MIT course materials online for free. They got a bunch of language classes up too, including Japanese. Check it out: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/index.htm