Ok I looked in my country of what about learning Japanese in "college" schools (or superior schools)...
The courses are made like that:
- 6 years, 60h/year (2h/week)
> From the 1st year, learning the Hiragana and the Katakana first
> We must know for the 2 first years 500 words and 150 kanji...
> For the 4th year, the teacher will go to speak nearly entirely in Japanese...
> The courses will be in Japanese, learning complexity of grammar and vocabulary...
> Basic grammar should be learned, 700 words, 200 kanji
> At the 6th year, vocabulary learning and kanji learning
> 2 000 kanji, 10 000 words
All these courses did both oral and writing...
Here is a PDF Files who resume the 4 firsts year (in french, sorry)
http://www.heb.be/hebasbl/programme/Japonais.pdf
I also heard comments about "Assimil", who is a different kind of learning a language (at home)... We have Audio CD and books...
As I heard, we start with some "Katakana and Hiragana" and a lot of "Romanji" (Japanese in latin alphabet, right?) to help us to understand and to speak this language...
The final courses are the writing of Kanji...
And I heard it works well too...
Here is the website (available in English):
Assimil – éditeur de méthodes de langues étrangères
I'm going to go to contact the school and some students of it, I'll tell you my news...
Thanks again to take time to help peoples like me...