How To Learn Spanish Online Fast - 3 Steps to Getting Started

                                                                                         

Step 1: Find a Native Speaker to Help You

This is a hugely important thing to do that a lot of people miss out on and don't bother with. Having a native speaker to talk to will do an enormous amount for your Spanish learning progress. Also, it definitely should not be any kind of a formal 'lesson', the best thing you can possibly do is to just have a normal colloquial casual conversation with them so that you're learning how to use the language in a normal day-to-day context JUST like you would if you were using it day-to-day in a foreign Spanish-speaking country. If you don't know anyone who's a native Spanish-speaker who can help you, there's several websites dedicated to helping people from different countries help each other learn foreign languages--in other words there will be people on there from Latin America and Spain who need someone to practice their English with and in turn they will help you with your Spanish; personally I recommend using a site called Friends Abroad for this. Also, I highly recommend trying to get on the phone with them so that you can actually SPEAK and it's not just email and chat (written Spanish)--you can always use a free VOIP service such as Skype for this.

Step 2: Choose a Home Study Program

There's just no getting around it: you're going to have to invest some money in your own education if you're at all serious about this. A Spanish home study course is going to be your primary tool in learning Spanish and therefore it's important to choose the right one and commit to following through with it and learning a little bit of Spanish each day. I personally recommend Learning Spanish Like Crazy (see my resource box) for this, but there's also Pimsleur, FSI, Berlitz, Michel Thomas, etc.

Step 3: Commit to Learning One New Word in Spanish EACH Day

This way you'll always feel like you've actually done something productive, no matter how little other Spanish you did because you didn't have time for it--you can always be productive by having learned a new word in Spanish, and it only takes a few seconds. There's sites out there you can sign up for that will email you a new word, or ten if you like, each day. The one I use, called Spanish-Word-A-Day, sends it to your RSS reader or iGoogle page, which is very convenient.

About the author:
Andrew Kawaski has been teaching himself Spanish in preparation for moving to and living in Latin America (Colombia and Argentina, specifically), and recommends reading his friend's review of Learning Spanish Like Crazy BEFORE you buy ANYTHING at: Learning Spanish Like Crazy Review: An Honest Opinion

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