http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German/Introduction

This might help. I'm German myself, and after skimming through this it seems like a good start. If you have any questions just ask, I can help you out since I've got some free time on my hands .

You could try Rosetta Stone?

download Michel Thomas audio course. it's great

http://torrentz.eu/ada3b6c1e03f92e7c748678d35326d254e6ba657

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I'm Norwegian and I'm currently learning German as well. I found that RS is a nice way to get started with learning German, and it's (somewhat) fun and easy.
I've currently finished 3 of 4 "units" at level 1. The total course have 4 units * 5 levels, so there's much to be learned.

I'm currently also looking for good/"canonical" learning material, but so far I'm sticking with RS as primary method. Due to it's "immersive" style of teaching, you won't explicitly learn grammar, so you might want/need other sources after a while. But as a beginner's resource I think it's great, and I recommend it.