There are many ways of learning a new language. You could seek the help from books. In case you are not a very studious person, you could check out other resources like the internet or audio tapes which are readily available. However, there are other options which are not just innovative, but also interesting and can easily be categorized as the easiest way to learn Spanish. This is a unique method which has been designed by the Mexican people called the Telenovelas. These are a series of dramas which run on the television and are pretty similar to soap operas.

So how are soap operas the easiest way to learn Spanish? These have a shorter run time on average, meaning that the drama which is involved in these series is of a much higher frequency. These Telenovelas make use of extreme histrionics, which is obvious from the body language and gestures being used, and are generally very clear and easily understood. When you match up the words with body gestures, you unconsciously start to pick up the language used. One very popular example of a Telenovela is the series called “Destinos”, which was actually produced with the objective of teaching Spanish.

You don’t need to buy a new downloadable Spanish course if you already have one on CD. You canobviously just use iTunes to convert the audio so that you can play it on your iPhone. This will need to be in MP3  format. iTunes has made it easy to do this. You can then learn spanish wherever you are; in the train, the car, at work or even on holiday.

If you don’t have an existing course there are many Learn Spanish applications on the Apple iPhone that you can download from the App Store. 24/7 TUTOR is one that seems to be very popular.

24/7 TUTOR gives you a set of the most common and useful Spanish words and phrases, organised by topic and category. Every phrase has an audio recording. A priority-filter mechanism is provided that allows you to optimise your efforts by focusing on those items that need more practice.

Listening to Spanish will help you improve your listening skills; but you really do need to practice Speaking Spanish to do it properly. Just ten or fifteen minutes every day is all it takes to see a great improvement.

Twitter is also very simple. Around 2 Million people use Twitter at the moment, compared to Facebook’s 90 million users, but this will change quickly as people become more aware of social networking.

learn Spanish on twitter

This is way that the web is transforming, so it’s important to get onboard now if you want to be effective later. Learn the social networking ropes at the ground-floor so you’ll be on the higher floors when the elevator goes up.

All you need to do is sign-up, login and type in the little box: “What are you doing right now?” That’s it. Just go ahead and describe what you’re doing. You need to be short and precise by the way.

Twitter is an awesome place to learn. But could you learn something specific such as learning Spanish?

Firstly, you need to find the people that are chatting about learning Spanish. You can do this by scrolling down to the bottom of the twitter page, click on search and type in ‘learn Spanish’. You’ll then notice there are stacks of people chatting between themselves on this subject.

Here’s a list:

http://www.twitter.com/spanishonly

http://www.twitter.com/nowlearnspanish

http://www.twitter.com/spanishlanguage

You can easily enter these conversations by replying to the twitters that you find interesting. On average, 1 in 5 people will then reply back to you. There are also many Spanish teachers on Twitter that are teaching a word a day.

This is both fun and a great way to learn with others. Tell me how you get on…