okay, ive been doing alot of the legwork because ive been wanting to become proficent, hablo un poco espanol, tengo 4 anos en escuela pero no tengo amigos que hablan espanol y you deseo hablo espanol. any ways, I found a site that can help, it’ll be easier for you if you have some background in the language also, a technique i use (it goes along with speak, speak, speak) I try to think my english conversations out in spanish, it can be confusing at times and at other times its just impossible but if you think about conversations you had and translate it’ll help with the conversation end, and like some people mentioned, you have a beyond valuable tool: tus amigos que hablan espanol!
hope this has been some help
salud

also i forgot to mention, even though the person who mentioned dora and diego was probably joking, immersion is the best way to learn, listen to the spanish radio and tv channels, they may talk to fast for you at first but you’ll start to catch words and eventually sentences etc.

Watch “Dora the Explorer” or “Diego” LOL!!!

take a vacation to Mexico.. and while you are there.. drink lots of their water.. you will learn the language pretty fast!! hahahahahaa!

I dunno.. I took Spanish in college twice… got a good grade both times… still can’t speak it!!… but then.. when I go home there is nobody in my regular day-to-day activities that requires me to speak Spanish…

You have friends.. have them teach you!!

The best way to learn spanish for free is to get sold into a Mexican prostitution ring.

Search Yahoo! for Free Spanish Classes, you’ll find some good classes and try chatting as more as you can with some spanish people.
Estoy aqui para ayudarte en lo que necesites. *here to help you in what you need.

The most important thing is talk talk talk
hablar hablar hablar
and don’t be embarrassed

Adios

Have them teach you maybe? And if they do not help teach you then they arent really friends orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……tell them to quit speaking a language you cannot understand in front of you. THAT is rude.

when do we start your lessons