Useful Links

Sites to help with learning languages: vocabulary, dictionaries, grammar points, even philosophies on how to best learn.

Japanese
All Japanese all the time - A unique method to learning Japanese, and great motivation to do it
Remembering the Kanji - Study Heisig's Remembering the Kanji series of books
Rikaichan - Firefox addon that lets you lookup kanji with popups (extrememly useful)

French
Word Reference's English-French-English Dictionary
IELanguage's French Tutorial - Many grammar lessons and vocab, for beginners to more advanced students

Anki flashcards

Anki is a spaced repetition flashcard program for the PC, especially designed for learners of Japanese.

It's invaluable for those trying to learn a new language, and I use it myself, daily. I don't waste time with long lists in my notebook anymore and what I remember STICKS.

Flashcard sets that I put together can be downloaded here:

Japanese
Hiragana Writing
Hiragana Pronunciation

Twinkle Flashcards

Twinkle is a flashcard program for Palm OS that uses spaced repetition.

I've used it to study, it's useful for when you're on the bus, in waiting rooms etc. Here are some flashcard lists to make use of it:

Japanese
hiragana.pdb - hiragana characters with romaji
katakana.pdb - katakana characters with romaji

French
french1.pdb - around 1000 beginner vocabulary words