I think it's often hard to find a place to start, and I hope with posting this it'll help someone.
If anyone ever wants to study together, feel free to PM me!

Language Exchange Sites:
http://sharedtalk.com : Sponsored by Rosetta Stone (which I've never used, but love this place 'cause Free haha), you can speak to Russians learning Korean and French who also speak Japanese, Koreans who study English and Portuguese and know some Arabic and Swahili...the possibilities are far-reaching. Once you make a free account, you can textchat, voicechat or PM people from all over the world. It always helps to have an outlet where native speakers are more easily reachable~
--BUT SharedTalk closed down August 31st, 2015. Their new site with upgrades, mobile access, and the same general idea going forward will be/is:
http://talk.considerate.ly/ : which has gone up in sort of a BETA test stage, if you scroll down the page and click the yellow triangle to the right of the large black print: 'Try HelloLingo Basics Now'. Alternatively,
https://sharedlingo.com/ : has gone up in place of SharedTalk and in anticipation for a completed HelloLingo (hosted as 'talk.considerate.ly' ), and there are 20-30 people online all day during any given time. Still small, but worth checking out.

Learning Process from Beginner to Advanced:
So, I've really ever taken university courses (ohkay, *a* course P; ) &&used one website and one online dictionary, but I bet others have come across helpful resources all over the place!
Referencing my university classes first, we used the KLEAR textbook line. The website KLEARtextbook.com http://kleartextbook.com/ : actually has the audio free for anyone to listen to, for I believe most if not all of the textbook series levels! This is pretty decent listening practice, if not a bit 'forced'. But it's good to see if you can pick out vocab and grammar, even if it isn't always the most natural:
Beginner Level Audio Files http://kleartextbook.com/category/b_beginning/a_audio-files/
Intermediate Level Audio Files http://kleartextbook.com/category/c1_intermediate/c_2nd-edition/
Advanced Intermediate Audio Files http://kleartextbook.com/category/c2_adv-interm/
They even have lecture slides!
Beginner Level Lecture Slides http://kleartextbook.com/category/b_beginning/lesson-ppt/
Intermediate Level Lecture Slides http://kleartextbook.com/category/c1_intermediate/lesson-ppt-c_intermediate/
~Looks like there aren't any Advanced Intermediate Lecture Slides up, but by now you can probably read books, right? ;D ~

Next, my on-my-own studying has been supplemented a whole lot by three other things;
1). TalkToMeInKorean.com http://www.talktomeinkorean.com/ : TTMIK has friendly, funny, intelligent staff that put up amazing lessons grouped in levels, up to date, from Level 1-9 so far and definitely with plans to expands. You can purchase materials to study with from their site, but all the level-lessons are free, including playful and fun-filled, culturally-conscious broadcasts, relaxed broadcast style, and absolutely never a dull droning moment. You'll learn somat new whether it be about culture or new vocab, every lesson, whether you already know about a grammar point or not. besides the (in!)formal lesson breakdown there are beginner tutorials like how to read, pronounce and write (supplemented wonderfully by their co-sponsored:
a). Korean Wiki Project http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/Main_Page ,
b). Pronunciation Guides http://www.talktomeinkorean.com/category/lessons/korean-pronunciation-guide/ ,
c). and even a fun Learn Korean with KPOP series http://www.talktomeinkorean.com/category/lessons/learn-korean-with-k-pop/, among others~. They've even made their own KDrama series, great for listening practice xD Check some of them out below, and explore their YouTube channel:
The Cheaters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7R5qxZSMj4
He Who Can't Date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT1AX_Sa1ko

2). http://www.howtostudykorean.com/ This is THE BEST more structured textbook-like resource I’ve ever found. It’s like TTMIK, but goes in order from where a complete beginner would need to start, to more advanced topics, only teaching what will make sense as time goes on in one’s studies. Definitely check this out alongside TTMIK, and see which works the best for your learning style. This site is my latest discovery, and it’s a wonderful option for getting really in-depth on grammar points, or just brushing up on certain topics.

3). Naver Dictionary http://dic.naver.com/: Don't be scared away by all the Korean! This is one of the best auto-fill online dictionaries I've found for specifically Korean > TonnesOfOtherLanguages. It pulls up possible words AND phrases as you type in the search box. If you can read Hangeul by now, the first link won't be too intimidating to find the 'English' switch-over. If not, here's the
a). English to Korean http://endic.naver.com/ ,
b). Japanese to Korean http://jpdic.naver.com/ , and
c). Chinese to Korean http://cndic.naver.com/ for starters, but they've of course got an extensive European selection too so look around in the rest of the list to the right there!

4). https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Korean : Didn’even know there was a ‘WikiBooks’ for languages! Haven’t tried this out, but it’s a Wiki, and has additional resources for you to explore. If you check this out lemme know how it goes! C: