my japanese 先生 (teacher) is always late for 15 mins leaving one hour left for the lesson while we dont have much practice during class.

i am pushing myself to learn japanese seriously.

spent an afternoon to browse online to see if there is any recommeneded japanese self learning kit or books.

and here is my findings:

1. a japanese-chinese/english dictionary

2. 日本漢字讀音詞典, by commerical press

it is all sold out everywhere but it is still available in amazon.cn. though its in simplified chinese but it is useful when you come across 漢字 in japanese.

3. 大家的日本語

I also ordered some other books which i found useful.

There are 2 good sites:

http://www.learnjapanese.aiyori.org/

http://www.linguist.com.tw/JAPClass/j_grammar/j_grammar_index.htm