I'll take this moment to first introduce myself. My name is to the left (derp) and this is my first post on these forums. I'm a taurus and I enjoy long walks on the beach. My favorite drink is... oops. Wrong forum. Anyway, I'm gonna tell you a little story...
If anyone were to notice my join date for this site, they would see it's been over a year since I first wondered in here. Long story short, I wanted to start (seriously) learning Japanese a couple weeks before I registered on this site. I did some reading around, digging through forums, puttering around on Google, that sort of thing, for quite a while. I made an account on AJATT, TextFugu and, obviously, here. I spent a lot of time reading Khatzumoto's blogs and thinking about the things he was saying and, I'll admit, I started thinking it might be a great way to go. RtK sounded easy enough for me to just jump into, Anki is free and, as a student, I was already fully stocked on pencils and paper. So, I hit the books, started learning my kanji and was, more or less, happy with my results. Then disaster struck...
My wife and I ended up moving to another state on very short notice (two weeks) and had to pack up our apartment in a big damn hurry. Point is, somewhere in that crazy month of packing, moving and unpacking, I lost my Japanese 'stuff'. Fast forward ten months...
I found my RtK book. About a week and a half ago actually. I've noticed something encouraging since finding it. Granted, I only made it through about 250ish (246 lol) kanji before our move, but I haven't forgotten a single kanji and my kana is solid, both hiragana and katakana, thanks to Obenkyo. I feel like I'm in a pretty good place, considering the amount of time I took off from studying. However (and this is the real point of this post)...
While I was doing all of my reading through the blogs on AJATT and Fugu and the threads here, I've come to realize something that hadn't even occurred to me before. That is, I don't want to spend 3 1/2 months learning JUST to write the kanji in RtK 1. Besides that, there are so many resources that I've seen mentioned and of which I have almost no knowledge, I've become convinced that there are more learning options available than what I'd previously believed or even hoped for.
The idea behind making this thread was to have as many of those resources as possible listed in one place, possibly organized by ability level, so that whenever someone needs to be pointed in a good direction according to their current goals, there is a convenient and organized location with that information. This is, in a large part, for my own benefit, but also, and obviously, for anyone else who might happen to look at this thread, assuming my 'dream' comes to fruition.
All that said, if you lovely members of this highly esteemed forum could kindly post what you know about the resources you've used and perhaps an estimated requisite skill level for that resource, I would be more than happy to put it all together into a single thread for the use and convenience of anyone who needs it.

In my searches of this forum, if I have some how missed a thread like this, just /slap me and pat my butt on the way out the door.

First off, I must apologise. I cannot pat a fellow member's buttocks.
There are quite a few stickies addressing learning resources, and I do not feel this topic merits a new thread.

http://forum.koohii.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=9
I do admit that these stickies don't get updated as much, but they do exist.
We also have the recent "Ultimate Reading Thread" here:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=11277&page=1

I suggest students not be obliged to find a perfect list of resources. Use what works.
As for your RTK dilemma, that may be addressed. But I, unfortunately, do not have much Japanese experience outside of RTK, a few thousand vocabulary words/sentences, some cloze deletions, and a lot of anime/drama.

Aspiring Wrote:First off, I must apologise. I cannot pat a fellow member's buttocks.
There are quite a few stickies addressing learning resources, and I do not feel this topic merits a new thread.

http://forum.koohii.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=9
I do admit that these stickies don't get updated as much, but they do exist.
We also have the recent "Ultimate Reading Thread" here:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=11277&page=1

I suggest students not be obliged to find a perfect list of resources. Use what works.
As for your RTK dilemma, that may be addressed. But I, unfortunately, do not have much Japanese experience outside of RTK, a few thousand vocabulary words/sentences, some cloze deletions, and a lot of anime/drama.

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I fail to see how creating a single thread with these resources organized in a usable fashion could possible hinder these forums in anyway, especially considering I've already volunteered to compile the information myself. The stickies to which you are referring are one of the biggest reasons I made this thread. They are unorganized. They're overwhelming. They're intimidating. My intention is only to lessen the scary factor and to make what can be very difficult (taking the first step) more manageable/doable.
I understand everything is already very established in this community. I have no desire to shake things up and upset anyone. However, a thread like this can only help.

How is this not a re-creation of the threads that Aspiring already linked to? And if you were volunteering to compile the information then why did you make a post asking people to give you the information? Its all on the forums.

I just fail to see how this thread will differ from the other threads. There is a lot of stuff out there, any thread attempting to "compile" the information is going to ultimately appear intimidating because there IS so much.

If you want to try, go ahead, there is already tons of information in the stickies as it is. I don't see why you couldn't compile the information yourself and make a good post, instead of asking people to give you the stuff to post.