Reply #24: Other tips:

[Zavulon]

1.) Here's a good resource: http://spanish.about.com/ . I use the French version and learn a lot.

2.) Pick a Spanish website of your choice and make it the startup page on your browser. For example, there's Mexico's Yahoo (http://mx.yahoo.com/) or Spain's Yahoo (http://es.yahoo.com/). Or you could pick a newspaper (http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/ , http://www.newspapers.com/ ), or MSN's Spanish version, or whatever.

3.) If you use a web-based e-mail service that has language options, switch to Spanish. You'll pick up Internet vocabulary that way, and if you use Hotmail or Yahoo you'll be taken to a Spanish-language page when you sign out.

4.) Assuming you're not married, find a picture of a Spanish speaker you think is smoking hot and put up pictures of that person everywhere in your house. This is what my brother is doing to learn Spanish. He has pictures of Salma Hayek and Anna Kournikova everywhere in his house (Kournikova is not a native speaker, but made herself fluent even before she started up with Julio Iglesias's son, whose first name I forget). My brother tells me that even though he thinks Hayek is hotter, the Kournikova picture helps more, especially when he's about to quit - as in "Christ, if she can do it, I'm sure as fuck not quitting."

(I have a long-term girlfriend, so I can't use this strategy. :( )

Bonne chance.