While there is no replacement for classes, and genuine speaking experience with actual experience, watching Anime in Japanese will go a long way towards acclimatising your ear to the language, and likewise the tongue.
Compared to your peers with no experience of the language, you will find it fairly easy to recognise new words, and tell words apart. Likewise you'll probably be able to pronounce the language a lot better, particularly if you've picked up the habit of singing along to karaoke...
But I'll echo Solomon, if you don't want to sound like a 13 year old street punk trying to save the world, take a class.
Fun fact: "We have to save the world!" statistically occurs far more often in Anime then "Would you like to go out for a cup of coffee?"
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