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Spanish is one of the quicker languages for English speakers, and it still stalls for most people around the two past tenses. This plan gets the sounds and the core verbs in place, fills the middle months with Spanish you mostly understand, and ends with one real conversation that everything else builds toward.

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Goal

Hold a 30-minute conversation in Spanish Month 6

Six months of daily practice toward one unrehearsed conversation.

Foundations Week 6

The sounds, the core verbs and the first 500 words.

  • Choose Latin American or Spain Spanish, and one main courseDo firstDay 3
  • Learn the five vowel sounds and read a page aloudDay 10
  • Get ser, estar and the present tense solidWeek 4
  • Reach the 500 most common wordsWeek 6

Listening and reading Month 4

Hours of Spanish you mostly understand.

  • Start a podcast or series made for Spanish learnersWeek 3
  • Learn the two past tenses: preterite and imperfectMonth 3

Speaking Month 6

Booked early, so it cannot drift.

  • Book a weekly session with a tutor or exchange partnerDo firstWeek 3
  • Record a 2-minute voice note about your weekMonth 2
  • Hold the 30-minute conversationDo firstMonth 6

Routines

  • 20 minutes of Spanishdaily
  • Review flashcardsdaily
Skills
  • SpanishBeginner → Intermediate

    Log practice here so the hours add up. Conversation arrives after a few hundred of them, not a few dozen.

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Dates you will not have to remember

First Spanish conversation session

Week 418:0030 min
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How to learn Spanish without stalling

Spanish is spelled almost exactly as it sounds, so read aloud from the first week. It is the quickest confidence there is.

The hard parts are predictable: ser and estar, the two past tenses, and later the subjunctive. Meet each one when the plan says, not all at once.

Listen to far more Spanish than you think you need, and speak with a person every week even when it goes badly.

Questions

Learn Spanish, answered.

The US Foreign Service Institute places Spanish among the quickest languages for English speakers, at roughly 600 to 750 class hours for professional working ability. A basic conversation comes much sooner, which is why this plan aims at one real conversation in six months rather than fluency.
A little every day, lots of Spanish you mostly understand, and speaking with a real person early. Spanish is spelled almost exactly as it sounds, so reading aloud from the first week pays off quickly.
Whichever you will hear and use most. The two are fully understandable to each other; the differences are mainly accent, some vocabulary and vosotros in Spain, so sticking with one matters more than which one.
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