japanese question

I've been learning Japanese for a short while, and I feel like I've been going about it the wrong way.

The shit I've been using is teaching me how to say shit, but I feel like it's building it on... zero foundation.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with knowing how to say KANKOO DESU KA or anything, but it's not teaching me grammar, what I'm actually saying (it just gives me a general English translation like "are you sightseeing?") or how to read or anything, and I feel like it's more of a gimmicky tourist version of Japanese. It's kind of like Rosetta Stone, I guess.

So, I've decided to ask you fellow basement dwellers. I found this particular blog

http://learningjapanesewithanonymous.blogspot.com/2011/07/introduction.html

Should I follow this guy's lead? I've heard mixed things about Namasensei, I've heard about the Genki books but I don't really know shit about them, Rikaichan is a godsend from what I hear, and all that shit.

All his advice seems to be really good to me, so I figured I'd ask someone who actually knows how to speak it what your basic assessment is.

TL;DR should I follow this guys advice to into nihongo?

>>8
>You can tell the difference between someone who has been studied properly and someone who is "self taught".

This is so much bullshit you don't even know. I can't count how many times I've met people that "studied" Japanese in college for 3+ years and yet they can't form a proper sentence. When people ask how I studied and I tell them on my own the reaction is 100% "え？マジで？". Weeabooism lies in the person himself. I know a guy that wants nothing but to learn Japanese because he loves anime and wants to fuck a Japanese girl, and because of it he's always just chiming in with stupid ass broken sentences about dicks and asses. Those same weeaboos you speak of are also always in the formal classes.

>>10
Make Japanese friends, ask them contextual questions about kanji you don't understand once in awhile. I gave him everything he needs to get to a pretty good-ass level.