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!

>>26
Are you so insecure about yourself that you need to assure ME that I'm a retard? Inferiority complex, ahoy.

>can ignore the fact that there's actually a system behind the kanji
There's a system. Yours just doesn't count as one. Pimsleur's approach is ineffective by itself, but if you know the on and kun readings, or know the furigana to the words, then it's invaluable.

>>27
In your OP message:
>I want to try to learn as much Spanish as possible until then. I am a pretty fast learner
>and not one to take shortcuts usually

There's no other way around it. Any person who actually studies a language at a uni/college or even self-learning it can tell you that constant applications and revision of said language will secure your path to success. Make it stick to your head by learning it PROPERLY, and ignore bigots who insist that spending thousands of hours compared to rote memorizing characters is actually a valid method to learning it.

I'll say what I said in the Mandarin thread, since his situation is very similar to yours. Buy a Spanish textbook, be it a college textbook or commercial self-learning one. Get acquainted to the structure and learn commonly used phrases, introductions, whatever. Then, when you get to Spain, it will be infinitely easier because you'll be around the language every minute, and you'll eventually get accustomed to the structure, and this will accelerate your learning.

I'm all for learning a language quickly, but if you're like "oh lol, i only spent a few hours a week learning HUNDREDS of characters, lol retard YOU FAIL BECAUSE I'M RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG" then you're not only doing it wrong, but you're making yourself out to be a cunt.