No need for expensive spanish learning programs or any of that stuff. The best way to learn spanish is to:
1)Watch spanish television with spanish subtitles, just study each scene,translate the words, go through the pronunciation and repeat the sentences until you sound exactly like a native speaker. This will give you real spanish spoken in the real world, it will give you context and help you comprehend the fast spanish that you will actually receive from native speakers. A lot of these courses teach spanish at a pace that is way too slow......For spanish videos with spanish subtitles there are a ton on youtube, telemundo has a lot of their telenovelas posted with spanish subs on their channel. A lot of latino news videos are fully subbed in spanish. There are videos on youtube from every region of the spanish speaking world so you can adapt your spanish to the place you are planning on visiting.
2)To flex your comprehension muscles, find videos with the fastest spanish you can find, sinaloense spanish is pretty damn fast to me. After listening to it a while and trying to parse out the words switch to a more clear spanish video and see how much easier it is to comprehend and follow along.
3)Get a spanish girlfriend with little to no english, you will be forced to improve quickly. I met a lot of girls on a site called mobifriends just watch out for the shady Colombianas and Dominicanas. Get a bunch on your whatsapp so you always have someone to practice with.
These three things together will blow any spanish learning program out of the water. I hope that helps. Buena suerte.
1)Watch spanish television with spanish subtitles, just study each scene,translate the words, go through the pronunciation and repeat the sentences until you sound exactly like a native speaker. This will give you real spanish spoken in the real world, it will give you context and help you comprehend the fast spanish that you will actually receive from native speakers. A lot of these courses teach spanish at a pace that is way too slow......For spanish videos with spanish subtitles there are a ton on youtube, telemundo has a lot of their telenovelas posted with spanish subs on their channel. A lot of latino news videos are fully subbed in spanish. There are videos on youtube from every region of the spanish speaking world so you can adapt your spanish to the place you are planning on visiting.
2)To flex your comprehension muscles, find videos with the fastest spanish you can find, sinaloense spanish is pretty damn fast to me. After listening to it a while and trying to parse out the words switch to a more clear spanish video and see how much easier it is to comprehend and follow along.
3)Get a spanish girlfriend with little to no english, you will be forced to improve quickly. I met a lot of girls on a site called mobifriends just watch out for the shady Colombianas and Dominicanas. Get a bunch on your whatsapp so you always have someone to practice with.
These three things together will blow any spanish learning program out of the water. I hope that helps. Buena suerte.