After the first step on this Easiest Foreign Languages web site enables you to read and pronounce thousands of Spanish words similar to English, what should your next steps be?
For adult beginners, reading Spanish is easiest.
Second Step: READING MORE SPANISH. Because English and Easiest Spanish share many words that look alike in print, the easiest ability for you to continue to develop will be reading more in Spanish. You can read at your own pace, unlike being forced to keep up when trying to listen.
Reading Spanish will be helpful if you travel. You will find that reading some Spanish will help enable you to read your way around Spain or Latin America, for example, because finding your way depends so much on reading, even more than speaking and listening.
Third Step: LISTENING. Listening to understand spoken Spanish is more difficult than reading and will develop much more slowly, because the sounds of Spanish differ greatly from English -- and foreigners seem to speak so fast. However, listening to instructional audio as a second step is a good way to begin learning to understand all those Spanish sounds.
Fourth Step: SPEAKING. Speaking Spanish is more difficult to learn than reading or listening. The pronunciation patterns of Spanish are different than the ones you are used to in English. Even many of the Spanish words spelled identically to English ones are pronounced differently.
Fifth Step: Writing Spanish. The most complex skill, writing will develop last, as it does in your native language.
Easiest Spanish is the easiest start of the simplest learning sequence for adult beginners:
1. Seeing words similar to English in Easiest Spanish: This focuses on single Spanish words you already know from English, enabling you to begin to read a little Spanish.
2. Saying the Spanish words similar to English in Easiest Spanish: Pronounce single Spanish words, learning the Spanish variation of words you already know how to pronounce in English.
3. The Ten Easy Spanish Lessons on this web site are the easiest way to begin learning Spanish, because you will find out how much you know about Spanish just because you know English.
4. Listening to Audio of Tourist Phrases for Spanish: Progress from familiar single words in steps one and two above toward listening to spoken Spanish. Then saying short Spanish phrases useful for travel.
5. Studying an Instructional Course in Spanish: Progress from phrases to complete sentences, and Spanish grammar required for sentences.
The links below include general resources for learning more Spanish.
Also resources for special areas of need for Spanish such as:
Spanish Around the Home for supervising Spanish-speaking maids and yard workers,
Spanish for Construction Supervisors with Spanish-speaking workers.