How I Would Learn Spanish in 2024 (If I Could Start Over)

You want to become fluent in another language in 2024, so let's not waste time. Here are 24 methods I've personally tried to learn languages, ranked by effectiveness and also scored for cost and ease. This is all based on my experience going from zero to fluent in Spanish and passing the C2 Spanish exam about a year ago.

I hope this video makes it much easier to know what language learning methods to start with and which ones to avoid to not waste time. Rooting for all of you for your language goals in 2024. What language are you learning in 2024?
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❖ Video References for each Method
24. Duolingo

23. Netflix Language Learning

22. Language Immersion

21. Listening to Music

20. Sleep Language Learning

19. Online Language Lessons

18. Language Exchange Partner

17. School

16. Language Exams

15. Language Podcasts

14. Language Reactor

13. Language Youtubers

12. Language Textbooks & Workbooks

11. Video Games
(future video)

10. Becoming a Youtuber

9. ChatGPT Conversations

8. CustomGPTs

7. Bing AI

6. Google Bard

5. Immerse Virtual Reality

4. Mondly VR

3. Language Lab

2. Noun Town

1. ImmerseMe
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About me
Hola a todos 👋🏽 I’m Jerry, I learned Spanish from 0 to fluent, have taken the Spanish C2 mastery exam, and I make videos to help you learn Spanish and connect to the people and cultures that surround this beautiful language. Whether you're just starting out or want to keep improving, I've got something for you, so come aboard and join this Spanish adventure! 🥂

[JerryRegistre]

What language are you learning in 2024?

[GoLongAmerica]

If you're learning Spanish in the USA, you can get language immersion in most big cities.

[sweetlolitaChii]

Bro I learned SO MUCH playing Skyrim and Animal Crossing in Spanish, studying straight grammar, and practicing common mistakes in Duolingo.

[yandodov]

Duolingo lower than videogames? Don't know about that. On my 400-th day of Duolingo I had a solid B1 and was able to travel to Madrid for a month and talk with the locals. It should be B-tier. While it might not make you fluent, it exposes you to all spects of the language - reading and listening, writing and speaking. It gives you some grammar, but doesn't overwhelm you. And it's super easy to use - you just follow the lessons. It's underrated.

[BEYOURLANGUAGE-hrgb]

I have been watching lots of videos on how to learn a language, and now I know what to do. 1. listen 2. write 3. speak 4. do dueling and pimsleur or any other resource. yay now I am going to become fluent! yayayay!

[wagonhound_official]

Living and working in Houston, TX for the last year is the best thing I've done for my Spanish.

[kabirbuttan]

My exam is tommorow, lemme real quick spend 5 months in Spain...

[LyleLylefr]

Duolingo doesn’t directly teach you any grammar rules, it makes you figure them out on your own. That can be a good thing but I’d rather be told than have to figure it out.

[Acekanine]

i just need something that explains actual stuff like grammatical structure instead of vocabulary now, thanks for the list, was very well put together and very neat editing as well

[Nkanyiso_K]

Effectiveness 5 (for me)
2:24 Travelling - Money 😢
3:00 Music - 🤔 visuals
4:00 Tutor - Money 😅
7:00 Podcasts 🎵
7:30 Language Reactor 😮
7:55 YouTube 🤠
8:30 Books 📚
9:10 Games
9:42 Creating on YouTube

[fernwehtwl]

i have been living in spain for 2.5 years and i still speak no spanish with broken spanglish.
just because you are inside a country and living doesn't mean you will become fluent . You really need to find hte right people to practice spanish with ..spain is becoming very international that 1/3 people you meet will speak english well to you. I have tried to speak spanish outside to locals and they respond back to me in english becaues they are so frustrated trying to figure out what im saying and makes me feel so dumb.

I think the bottom like is motivation and drive. Without that it doesn't matter if you live in spain or not.
I also met an american who lived in barcelona for 10 years and still in A1 Spanish

[pierrezanetti]

Language Transfer is the best podcast to learn the basics of a langage

[NotDaisyNYC]

This is a great overview of options. I would rate YouTube higher on ease. It's the primary (almost exclusive) way I learned Spanish for the first 8 months and I continue to use it to advance (although now I focus on teachers whose videos are entirely or almost entirely in Spanish, e.g., Hola Spanish, Español con Juan, etc.). Although you have to search a bit for good teachers, some of the best (e.g., The Language Tutor, Qroo Paul, and others) have structured series on their channels to help people build their knowledge in a logical way.

[Abdi._.M]

there is no way bro puts netflix over duolingo

[SamJones]

what a freaking amazing video dude. thank you so much.

[katekurtz]

I’m going to be a foreign exchange student in Colombia next year. I’m watching this to learn as much Spanish as I can before I go but I’m so grateful to be able to study in another country for a year. I’m doing it through rotary and it’s definitely the most affordable way to immerse yourself in another country for a long period of time however there is still a lot of preparation but they can help you through some of it if you have questions. Thanks for the video!

[Joy]

I have Spotify premium for music didn’t realize I get 15hrs a month of free audiobooks 😃 so I’m listening right now, learn Spanish with Paul noble course, learning a lot and im just on chapter two, I’m sure there are books you can listen to as well.. oh and don’t forget a library a lot of free books, ebooks, movies and music you can listen to and learn. A mixture of tools is probably good.

[jest.]

this videos amazing, i assumed it had upwards of at least 100k views. keep it up man, i was blown away by the editing and how well thought out the rating system was

[hata]

this is incredible man. ive gotta learn german since im moving in about a year, and although its not the prettiest language to me, ive always wanted to be fluent in another language, and its just an overall positive. these are great suggestions i totally forgot how useful ai could be in this aspect

[the.aesthetic.glow.]

If you are planning to learn any language not just Spanish you must use all of these methods even the ones with fewer stars (except the sleep one because it's not even logical) I'm telling you this out of my personal experience as a polyglot, I'm a native arab and I learned french, English, some Chinese and some Japanese using all of these methods, you just need to choose a language that you love so that you can always be motivated, it might seem hard but if you really love the language you're learning you'll achieve your fluency goals for sure.