Unless you are exceptionally talented, there is no way to become instantly fluid and impress your family or politicians or the parents. But there are some things you can do to get rid of headaches are many when it comes to learning the language.
1 Identify the purpose of your study and how much you need to know
There are two sides to this question. First why do you want to learn Japanese? When you have this fully calculated, it is much easier to understand how much or little you really learn. If your goal is simply to be able to communicate in situations where no one speaks English, some vocabulary and pronunciation exercise is enough.
But if your goal is to live / work (learning the language is not even necessary, as explained here) in Japan, I would really think about it. Japan is another country. This may be difficult to achieve with the noise in the Internet. The "idols" strange culture and anime and otaku ... but in the end is only a country like many others.
While the lifestyle may be different in the sense that you communicate in a different language, and deal with a different culture, a lot of what is really doing the same basic things that we already do.
Work / study, go out and meet new people. If you are enthusiastic amazing when it comes to Japanese culture, but perhaps not so much the language, I would emphasize that perhaps should be largely ignored. Unless you look Japanese, you will likely receive the "treatment of tourism", no matter what language you speak, so any reflection on the experience of the "real Japan might be a little wrong.
2 Set Japanese work in their daily lives
If you want to avoid studying for hours for weeks or months in the weather before you leave, start applying it in your life. Everything from flash cards with vocabulary and grammar, listening exercises or just thinking in Japanese, work on it little by little every day.
This progress so may seem slow, but it is certainly easier to handle for people who do not have the opportunity to take time off to study. So instead of telling you that you will start two months before departure, start today if only a little, then just go.
As more and more deployed in the little things in your daily routine, such as learning the grammar on the bus, or eating or listening to classical Japanese Kanji cards on the toilet, nothing works. You can even be more creative, start a blog or write haikus, as long as you stick to eventually bring results.
3 identify what works for you and what does not work
It's not something you can do overnight. The learning process takes time, but it is likely to find more effective than other methods. For example, some people find the "Heisig method" to remember Kanji incredibly useful, while others find it ineffective. Realizing what works best for you to just focus on that.
Do not be afraid to refuse forms of learning that demonstrate ineffective for you, simply because they have worked for others. The learning process is different for each person, and realize that it can be an important step towards more effective learning step.
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