Originally Posted by =^..^=

Rosetta stone is not al that good

you'll spend a lot of time learnign words you wont use

u need to learn good conversational spanish.

IN fact in any latin based language there are only 600-800 words in a persons ACTIVE vocabulary. So a lot of thee study programs teach very redundant words.

Im currently learnign spanish using

Michel Thomas's Learn Spanish CD's (which i downloaded in mp3 off bearshare)
its the best system (yes i have tried all the big names like rosetta stone and pimsler and couldnt learn shit)

my spanish is pretty good from just a few hours with these mp3's. I get practice by speakign/writing to native spanish speakers.

btw
IM also looking to locate to costa rica soon