The reason most of use have for learning Spanish is being able to speak with other folks. That being the case, you should avoid spending lots of time worrying about reading and writing Spanish. To learn conversational Spanish should be your major goal.

It should be clear to you that the best means of picking up Spanish speaking skills is quite simply to initiate conversational interactions with people who speak that language. However, that’s easier said than to put into practice.

If you live in a place where there are not many native Spanish speakers, you will have a hard time connecting with another who can act as your conversation partner. Even where there is an abudance of speakers around, you could be reluctant to approach strangers for this purpose.

A wonderful way to acquire the ability to converse in Spanish is to seek out other people who are also trying to learn the language and offer to engage in some practice with them. The hitch with that is that, to really benefit, you should partner with someone whose Spanish conversational skill is more advanced than yours; in this way they can “bring you up” in your own abilities. But in that case, you will not be helping them much as far as bettering their own ability.

With all this in mind, I advise locating a Spanish conversation meet-up club or group as soon as possible. Although quite a few of the people in such a group will just be at your level in terms of speaking abilities, there’s a good probability the leader will be a native speaker or at least an advanced student.

In a college community there will often be student groups who meet up with their professor or perhaps a graduate assistant in a public venue such as a restaurant or bar to work on their Spanish. pull up a chair and join them~It is my experience that these groups will warmly welcome you, even if you feel an “outsider” initially}. Just send an email to the Spanish department at the local college or ask around, and you can almost certainly find some group meeting somewhere close that will gladly have you sit in with them.

Meeting on a regular basis with people who are working toward the same goal, in this case to improve their skills in speaking the language, is the best way to acquire conversational Spanish — supported by home study employing a tested instructional course from the Web or from your favorite bookstore.

Spanish can be suprisingly easy to learn. It doesn’t matter if you failed it in school, or you think you have little language ability, you can learn to speak Spanish.

You will discover a great many resources for learning Spanish if you look for them. Nothing really clicked for me, though, until I stumbled upon the unusual method discussed at http://www.spain-living.com. As incredible as it sounds, with this technique you can actually learn to speak Spanish naturally and with confidence in as short a time as 2 months!

Best wishes on your Spanish conversation efforts. Very soon you will amaze and please yourself by holding your own when speaking the language with others.