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One of the reasons that I've got some knowledge on the language was that there's a quite nice dictionary and it has been provided me with a lot in understanding the language. I've read through most of the words that I thought important and checked all the usage of the words. It surely helped me a lot. Anyone dare to do this, for it requires quite a few efforts, but I guess this is very important in building up the foundation of a language, especially if you learn it after you grew up.
Interesting, I know other people who did that and got good results -- perhaps I should try that too. It is also a matter of finding a good dictionary, of course. I have smth called Kodansha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary, it has only the most common words, but it does have a good number of examples. Are you using a J->R or a R->J dictionary?
On the other hand, for us Kanji in Context is probably even better, as it utilizes the structure of the Japanese language in a nice regular way. I doubt something like that would be possible in Russian or English...