Step 1: Get a Home Study Course
There’s just no getting around the fact that you’re going to have to spend some money on your own education if you’re really serious about learning Spanish especially if you’re really in a hurry and don’t have time to sample everything out there. Personally, for this purpose, I like Synergy Spanish (see bottom) because it’s specifically designed to get someone has proficient in simple daily conversational Spanish as quickly as possible, it can be completed in a few days to a couple weeks (depending on how hard you want to work at it) since it’s only 68 lessons that are 10 minutes long each, it’s only $49, and it’s almost entirely audio (it does include an e-book) so you can listen to it in the car.
Step 2: Talk to Yourself in Spanish
Carry a Spanish-English dictionary with you everywhere you go (they make pocket dictionaries so there’s no excuse!), and whenever you’re thinking or saying something to yourself (‘Where’s the milk at?’) try to remember to figure out how to say that same thing in Spanish (‘