What is the best textbook for english speakers to learn japanese?

i am trying to learn japanese and i am considering buying a textbook what is the best one to use if your an english speaker in the united states and how much dies it cost and where can i find it?What is the best textbook for english speakers to learn japanese?
Don't waste your money buying a textbook that only covers a few grammar points and some vocab and kanji. Use these resources, the are free:



http://www.guidetojapanese.org/ - is by far the best "textbook" out there for Japanese grammar, and goes further in explaining than any other textbook I've ever seen.



Use these resources too:

http://web.mit.edu/21f.500/www/vocab-pho… - go to "MIT JP Courses, then click on "Japanese 1."



http://buna.yorku.ca/japanese/jp1000.htm… - the entry course Japanese taught at York University.



Use http://jisho.org as a English-Japanese/Japanese-English dictionary, and to look up kanji.



Then go to the iTunes store and search for podcasts teaching Japanese. The key to learning a language is to hear natives speak it.What is the best textbook for english speakers to learn japanese?
just try to learn Japanese online, for example:

here is a good site:



http://japaneseclass.jp/



this site allows you to:

- Practice, improve and enrich your vocabulary and kanji

- Motivate yourself from the EXP you earned and get ranked among others

- Organize your learning - don't get stuck, learn Japanese level by level. know where to begin and where to continue.

- Weak List feature will intelligently record vocabulary/kanji that is difficult for you. the weak list allows the program of this site to set a bias for the vocabulary or kanji that is difficult for you, where more questions from your weak list will be given in the practice page.

- this site allows you to tag an object in user's photo with a vocabulary. the tagged object will be automatically cropped from the photo and given as a question in Photo Quiz.