Spanish Goals this year

Spanish goals this year:
1. Finish 2 levels of Rosetta Stone by June, 2014
2. Memorize 300 verbs by June 2014 - choose from review cards, then add.
3. Choose a telenovela to watch by June 2014
4. Do Spanish daily with children through December, 2014

Japanese help

My goal:
Memorize at least 1000 kanji by the end of 2014
Finish Rosetta Stone Japanese, 2 levels, by end of 2014
Memorize another 1000 kanji by end of 2015


Help with starting out learning to read and speak japanese.

Reading help.
wanikani.com - a system for learning japanese radicals and then 2000 japanese kanji - $8 a month currently, with a system for repetition and mastery.  Very useful, so far, although the first couple of levels are slow. The website doesn't unlock new kanji or radicals until previous ones are mastered, and won't allow reviews for up to a certain time period, so it will take a couple of days to get to the kanji itself.  You sign up for the beta reader, then get a confirmation email, and then, sometimes a few hours later, you get the email with information on making the account.

If worked on daily, it supposedly takes 1 1/2 - 2 years to memorize the kanji in the program.

Textfugu.com - same group that does wanikani.com, but this one is on hiragana and more reading oriented, rather than just the kanji.

Hiragana chart -
http://www.textfugu.com/resources/hiragana-chart/

Drop and drag hiragana practice -
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/hiragana-timer.html

practice with different hiragana and katakana fonts - I love this one for just straight on practicing -
http://www.realkana.com/hiragana/

Same thing, but practicing with kanji- just kanji, no sentences
http://www.realkanji.com

Pronunciation help using hiragana (helps to know it first):
http://www.textfugu.com/season-1/japanese-pronunciation/
(without the extra information and straight to the practice vidoes:
http://www.textfugu.com/season-1/japanese-pronunciation/3-5/#top )

Rosetta stone - useful, in my opinion, to use with these to help with pronunciation and getting a more instinctive feel for the grammar.