oh god, this is starting to scare me... lol. It's hard because we don't have any japanese people at my school *cries deeply* so i found the next best thing and got my chinese friend (shes hott but speaks no japanese or even mandarin/kanji for that matter lol, only her dialect) to learn japanese with me. It's hard to practice speech though because we have no book or reference we can use to practice what we learn.

For example, like in the first 2 days we were learning japanese we got to like page 45 in the Japanese for dummies book, and I am pretty much still on that page after a month, maybe a little ahead, because its so hard to memorize everything that I've learned because I don't practice it.

Does anyone know any good books or programs or ways I can practice what I learned? Like I feel stupid cuz its so early in the learning and im already stuck, liek with all these rules.

Like how verbs change whether they are a u- or an ru- verb, and like this big table of suffixes i didn't even bother to memorize like -iru and -desho and -nagara. Also the table of pronouns, like even if I take notes, after a few days I just forget all of the rules and memorized things, so Im looking for a way to retain the information. Me and my friend cant really speak it to each other cuz we don't know enough to make sentances yet =/.