Were and how can i learn japenese?

Question:

i love watching anime but there are certain animes i cannot watch because there not in english and cause of my adhd whenever i watch dubbed i spend more time watching the words then the show :(
plus i would love to be able to start watching japense tv. so is there like a site that teaches you or a tutoriing site or somthing, i dont mind paying. and i understand i will probably not learn it over night rather then a year or 2 and still probablly need more work. and id love to learn how to write it as well.

Answer:

Sometimes websites are a tad unreliable as the people who post lessons usually are still learning themselves, and there's a higher chance that you could just be studying wrong information.

I always recommend books and a combination of software or even car cds so you can hear exactly how words are pronounced. :)
Obviously there is the infamous Rosetta Stone, but I think it's a bit too expensive especially if you buy it and start learning and then lets say you change your mind about learning Japanese. Ya...waste of money big time.
Even Japanese Coach for the Nintendo DS is minimally helpful at best.
I started off with workbooks like the 'Japanese in 10 minutes a day' It is like a children's workbook and it has pictures that you can easily correlate stuff to. I mean in no way will this book make you fluent, but it helps provide some basics like colors, furniture, numbers, days of the week, basic verbs, basic nouns, and basic adjectives. It even includes a CD-ROM and flashcards that are very helpful.
It doesn't help with writing which is it's only downfall, and usually you should find a book that has writing next to the words as you learn it and not romanji .

I know I learned a lot of words from a Japanese-English dictionary. I would pick out a page a day and solely concentrate on what the words were and how to write them Then I would make flash cards and go through them. I would obviously keep the old flashcards, and I eventually built up a giant stack of notecards that I went through everyday.

When I was learning Japanese writing I started of with Kanji first, but I know there is a lot of argument that goes around when people say what writing to learn first. I used this book called Essential Kanji to help me out, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was by.

Some great basic books that helped me:
Situational Functional Japanese Volume 1:Notes by Tsukuba Language Group
Beginner's Japanese with 2 Audio CDs (Hippocrene) by Joanne Redmond Claypoole
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar by Seiichi Makino
Let's Study Japanese by Jun Maeda

I'm not saying that "oh if you go out and buy these books you will so know Japanese" This is what helped me, but every person is different. Don't be frustrated if it takes you longer to learn Japanese than you thought. I've been teaching myself Japanese for 2 years and I still mess up a lot, but that's bound to happen. I even stayed in Japan for a bit, and though that helped me heaps, I still had a hard time when it came time to actually have a conversation in real life.

Also I learned that if you find software (doesn't have to be Rosetta Stone), I recommend you use it as the visual and audio does help a ton when first starting off. I know there are some old software that people sell on ebay all the time, especially college students who take Japanese and drop it and then sell their stuff online. It's a cheaper way to get it other than going to the store and spending $200 plus on a CDROM.

All I say is that I wish you luck and practice every day even if you just learn a word or two :)