Learning Challenge

Okay, so on July 26th I'm going to Spain. I stopped learning Spanish in year 8 (when I was about 14) so to say my Spanish is rusty would be a bit of an understatement.

Either way, I want to try to learn as much Spanish as possible until then. I am a pretty fast learner (for example I can memorise about 500 kanji a week, and have started learning useful bits of Spanish vocab such as food, objects, places, etc) and not one to take shortcuts usually, but I have plenty free time until then anyway, so I don't mind about learning declensions etc. properly.

So, can anyone reccomend a plan or .. a breakneck 5 week learnfest that I can take? Any resources or paricular textbooks that I can steam through too? The vocab shouldn't be too much of a problem, I just want to make sure I have the grammar under by belt, with all verb forms.

Oh and I'd rather not buy any textbooks, just online resources/pdfs/rapishits if you may. I got a Spanish dictionary and that's all I plan to buy.

GO!

Ah, right-on Anonymous! The old "You have failed and I claim my supremacy; don't post anymore" workaround. It's so original and empowering!!!

The fact of the matter is, anyone can agree that these "few thousand hours" of learning is more rewarding/useful than "learning the script". You can memorize the script all you want; you're still not learning it. Enjoy your thousands of kanji characters without being able to recall all readings of it in specialized contexts when you'll need them!

Oh, and I love it how you dissect my post to bring about counter-points. Really, it's touching to see how much you devote your time to my "fail".