I thought that I should also include a short note about video lessons. To be entirely honest, I don't really listen to video lessons, but that doesn't make them any less useful or awesome.

For example, you could download some video lessons following the same steps described above, then watch them while you eat lunch every day. For some reason I like watching videos while I eat; I have no idea why.

I'm not the biggest fan of JapanesePod101's video lessons, although they do seem to be ramping up their video production a bit. If you're really into video learning, I'd probably go with FluentU Japanese. It's a paid service, which is a bummer, but it's a pretty cool online video platform. I wrote about it in this article.

Another option would be to take a systematic approach to studying anime, which I will look at towards the end of this guide.