Best Way Or Online Website For Learning Spanish

[webbo3]

i'm off off on holiday to spain in 12 months and want to improve my Spanish beyond ordering a drink, a meal and saying good morning etc, which is the best place to improve it..?

[sunny-dave]

Duolingo is free - worth a try

[naomi24]

The BBC has good free on line tuition.

[sunny-dave]

https://www.duolingo.com/course/es/en/Learn-Spanish

[webbo3]

Brilliant, thank you both.

[Buenchico]

I hope that you're not going to Barcelona. They take offence there if tourists try to use Spanish!

[Prudie]

I am on my 229 day streak with Spanish on Duolingo on my phone. I have learnt a lot as far as writing and understanding the written word goes but it's not that good at teaching one to speak or converse IMO. As it's free though it's better than nothing.

[Prudie]

I would add that it teaches South American Spanish so there are some slight differences in words and pronunciations to Castilian Spanish.

[webbo3]

"I hope that you're not going to Barcelona. They take offence there if tourists try to use Spanish!"

Tenerife Chris.

[naomi24]

Google BBC Spanish and have a look at that.

[gingejbee]

"which is the best place to improve it..?"
Spain!

[Gizmonster]

"Duolingo" all the way for me - you don't need to sign up for the paid version - "Duolingo Plus". Just stick with the free version, the course is exactly the same, it's just ad-free.

I'm on a 1387 day streak with my Spanish course (I think I started it 4 years ago this March).

It won't make you fluent, but it will take you quite a way down the learning path.
Depending on how much Spanish you wish to learn, you'll probably benefit from using other websites as well. I use https://www.spanishdict.com/ for checking meanings and verb conjugations etc.

[theshedman]

I used the Michel Thomas course and found it to be very good. It can often be had on eBay or amazon quite cheap. Also looked at the BBC one and Duolingo. It's a case really of finding the course that suits you as one course doesn't suit all. I found the Rosetta Stone one terrible but that is my opinion.