I need help i want to learn how to read japanese

[Knothole]

i need a teacher or something or a video or maybe something to read

[LavaBug]

Have you looked at the stickies...?
There are threads about books and stuff...

[Furevor]

if you have a nintendo DS id say look out for 'My Japanese Coach'
its pretty good, not too hard and best of all...cheap =)

[Sickness]

Get Pimsleurs Japanese
its boring and slow, but it does its job.

[milenium3]

It's a very difficult task,you will have to learn it.starting by the begining.It will take you a lot of time....I THINK IT'LL BE BETTER TO USE A TRANSLATOR.....

[-akichan-]

If you're talking about how to read Japanese as in recognizing the the Japanese characters, then you'll have to really remember which symbol is what sound. You must put interest on the lesson before you start learning it, because if you're not that interested, then it's hard for you to remember, otherwise not. Before I learned Japanese, I used to play games that were all in Japanese. The only two I remembered was the symbols of "yes" and "no", then I know which one is yes and no. Then I started to remember what the symbols are, which one is "item" and which one is "weapon".

[Ertai87]

For Hiragana and Katakana, Wikipedia has charts you can use to study from (I learned Katakana off Wikipedia). For Kanji, I recommend a book. My school uses the Basic Kanji book series. The first volume I put in the books sticky at the top of the forum. The second volume has ISBN 978-4-89358-119-8. You can try looking on Amazon for it, but it's published by Bonjinsha, so you might have trouble finding it outside of something like amazon.jp.

[Drakkle]

I kinda wish everything was as easy as Hiragana ~_~ 46 characters that stand for syllabic sounds? Psh, that was almost TOO easy to learn. The rest... ugh. I haven't even put a dent in my ability to retain what they mean.

Speaking of ways to learn, any thoughts on Rosetta? I mean, so far it's worked decent, but it feels a little more confusing than it should be at some parts. I almost feel like I've learned more from just my text books.