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The kanji learning games really aren't best suited to foreigners learning kanji, as a pretty good hook of the language anyway is required often to get through to learning about stroke order etc. Also watching subbed stuff in English is good, it's a bit like using stabilisers, albeit if you're cycling at 2 years old. Because you can slowly stop looking at the text and get the general gistof structure etc., only having to look down every now and then for some vocabulary you might not know.
On the subject of actual self-study, how do you tend to go about it? Are there routines you have, or is it more casual and whimsical? I find I can honestly only 'study' for no more than about 2 hours before I start to get either annoyed or tired/bored. I suppose that that is one of the joys about self-study, as it really is suited perfectly to your mood and current motivation. Can anyone reccomend some good self-study methods too, especially for Spanish?