The best way to learn Spanish without question is the Spanish Immersion course. These require the student to completely immerse themselves into the language, as the name suggests. Quite often the course will take place in a Spanish speaking country and will take anything from 1 week to 2 months.

Although this is undoubtedly the best way to learn Spanish it doesn't come without drawbacks, the biggest of which is cost. Immersion courses have become more affordable in recent years but they are still out of reach for many; there is also the issue of being away from work for a considerable amount of time too, which for many just isn't possible.

An alternative to this and 'numero dos' in our learn Spanish hit-list, is the college course or classroom course. Unfortunately, they have become a little old fashioned of late with the advent of the internet and the home learning boom but they are unquestionably deserving of a place on our 'best way to learn Spanish' chart, as they carry a high interactivity level and success rate.

Again, there are drawbacks with this type of course and they are again the cost. It's not unrealistic to expect that the cost to achieve a good basic level of Spanish fluency could be around $1000 to $1400, as you are probably looking at 8 months or two semesters of studying to achieve that. Yes, you have probably noticed another drawback and that is the length of time taken to get results.

And this brings us onto the most popular choice of many, and in my opinion the only way to learn Spanish nowadays, and that is the interactive-audio, online, conversational Spanish course. In terms of value it blows the previous contenders out the water as it costs a fraction of the price the other two will cost you.

If you are looking at flexibility, the best way to learn Spanish is definitely the online course. You learn Spanish when you want to learn Spanish, not when your timetable dictates that you have to.

The time taken to achieve results is way better than the college classroom type course but obviously can lag behind the immersion course which undoubtedly leads the way on timescales.

And finally the results:

Each method of learning Spanish as listed above all have a high success rate amongst students but by far and away the best way to Learn Spanish when you combine, cost, flexibility, quality and results is the Interactive Online Spanish course.