Yup. Same thing with me. I had work AND Japanese courses, but they clashed, and I had to stop with the Japanese classes.
Trying again this autumn though
I think the best sollution is to study HARD at home. Buy Japanese Mangas and try reading them. Get yourself a penpal or a netfriend from Japan. I came across an interesting site yesterday which focuses solely on penpals from Japan and internationally...I've given that a shot and hope it'll be ok.
The best way of course, to learn Japanese, is to travel there and be forced to learn the language...but unfortunately for me, on this case, I don't have alot of money...but I do want to live there for a year, which is why I'm doing all the stuff I just told you now, within this year, so that I might go to Japan and live there in a year's time...I dunno. That's just a plan. A major plan right now, but at least it keeps me going. I know I can learn it ^^
the site for the penpal thingy is
Japanese Penpals?