You might work for a large company that needs you to learn spanish. You may just want to go on a vacation to a spanish speaking country. You may want it because the lady or gentleman down the street has caught your eye.

Whatever the reason the problem is that it generally isn’t all that easy to learn. Naturally you could just drop everything and move to a spanish speaking country and totally imerse yourself in the language and the culture.

Or you could, go and sit in a diner or a coffee shop where the owners are spanish and just listen and hope that you picked up a few words here and their.

Logically though it would be much more time and cost effective to just pick up a quality course.