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I plan to go to Japan next year around Spring and stay like 3 months on tourist visa.
I'm not sure I'd like to attend a class, as I want to practice conversation which is difficult with any school I went to.
I might then find a tutor for 1/1 and 1 hour daily basis.
I'm 100% self taught so I can't give advice on classes. I have a tutor that I do japanese conversation practice with but otherwise I read books and websites, watch movies, listen to the news and music in japanese.
I have met people online for conversation practice (english / japanese practice trading) and I think that probably works fine, but I find my tutor convenient so I mainly do that for conversation.
Once I had memorized a couple of thousand kanji I started reading light novels (because furigana). And from the start I have been watching japanese video (lots of anime) to practice my ear. I also spent a couple of years writing japanese sentences out for an hour a day or so (with pencil and paper).
Basically, it's pretty time consuming. But it's also been super, super fun so I haven't minded the time investment at all. In the beginning I thought it would take 2 or 3 years, but it took more like 5 or 6 years to become fluent. It's been 8 years now and I'm still improving every day.
I really recommend bookwalker for books. And you can get lots of japanese TV and movie video via youtube or other internet sources. Most anime streaming sites let you turn off subtitles now, so that can also be good.
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