does anyone know any good programs/tutorials that can teach you japanese? i'm really intent and ready to learn!!! thanks in advance!!!

Heh, I'm self-teaching myself currently by just observing the kana used in games. But of course, it didn't help me so much with kana.
I'm hoping to take a Japanese class next year, if my school finally gets one.
Try searching around if there's any Japanese classes anywhere near where you live. You could set up some kind of program.

hmmm...that's not a bad idea :D i think there's one nearby. i'll have to take a look

Learning Japanese is A LOT more than it seems. It's not a foreign language class as if in French or Spanish. Japanese takes about 4x longer to learn than it does compared to average European languages due to the complex and variety of the structure and sentences as well as grammer. Bottom line, you can't learn it on the internet, you need an official class. XD

But for starters, kanachart.com is good because katakana is probably the easiest start. Well, in my assumption.

http://www.kanachart.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?kanji&s&1

Question: Will knowing a little (i.e. very little) bit of Chinese help in learning Japanese?

Should be yes...

thank you Sunny!!!

I doubt that. Pobably in understanding Kanji and all but that's an entirely different league of learning.

out in london there is no classes that i could find i had to learn from books and i still take a really long time translating tales games sometimes lol so my hrs on the game adds up to be around 300hrs to 400hrs lol because im sitting there trying to remember the word my memory is really bad slips out 1 sec later.