the Living Launguage course (have it at Border's) "?Habla Español?" seems easy and fun. it's got interactive dvd, so it plays on any 'puter, and it's cheap. obviously not as complete as some of the higher-priced spreads, but a good place to start. then we take on Spanish lovers, no?

Try going to about.com and brush up on your spanish there. The guy who writes the articles gets pretty in-depth with the material.

spanish.about.com/

Hi, If you are still looking you might check out www.parlo.com. There are 4 levels of online Spanish courses there: Travel Spanish, and Interactive Spanish 1 - 3. There are free resources there as well as on their blog, theparlo.blogspot.com (Full disclosure - I run this site) Another site for practice in listening is called www.yabla.com. (I don't work for them but know the folks who run it) they've come up with a cool technology that lets you watch a video in Spanish and have sub titles in Spanish, English or both. You can click on "Slow" and hear the speech played more slowly without it dropping in pitch. Each word is hyperlinked to a translation dictionary if you want to check the specific meaning of a word. This is a really good supplement but probably not a substitute for a course. I hope this helps. - Marcos

Wordreference.com is a great online resource, it not only has a useful dictionary tool but also forums where you can present difficult translation questions to native speakers and other students of the language.

I just ordered Spanish lessons on 8 audio cds, the plan being to listen to them in the car. I'll be happy to post a review once the cds arrive and I have time to give 'em a try. :)

You could also do some quick refreshers at www.learno.com, their spanish courses are broken into several sections, but it gives you the chance to brush up your on reading comprehension............

I own the Rosetta Stone French course and have tried the demo in Spanish, though I can neither afford at the moment or have it shipped to me in Costa Rica, however a course that seems somewhat similar that I downloaded is Before You Know It. You can get a free demo that's quite good and has a similar method (pictures, verbalization, testing, repetition...): www.byki.com/fls/span/spanish/

I HIGHLY recommend the application Ultralingua as an offline translation tool.

It's customizable--you can add new words and even phrases--though it comes with many. Again, the free trial is great and the price for the full program is quite reasonable: www.ultralingua.com/en/produ...index.htm . It even does conjugation!

I've also got Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary on my computer and between it and Ultralingua there's rarely ever a word I can't find, unless it's a conjugation of something I can't understand the root of.

Though I no longer have a car nor a tape player I'm still getting lots of help from my Learn Spanish In Your Car, as I've got the beginning of the course installed on my computer and have the booklets for levels 1-4 here with me in Costa Rica, which I often look at before I go to sleep at night or if I'm a passenger on the way to somewhere.

Probably the most helpful resource I invested in was the Spanish For Dummies book with CD. It's very quick reading and taught me lots of basics I'd been missing and made me understand the reasons I'd been having so much trouble learning Spanish. If only I'd started with it!

I receive a free daily newsletter from here: PALABRADELDIA.COM (SPANISHWORDOFTHEDAY.COM) which has been very helpful and also occasional ones from Patrick Jackson at www.learningspanishlikecrazy.com/ .

¡Buena suerte con sus lecciones!