I need a good and fairly fast & easy way to learn spanish without having to spend a lot of money?

Rosetta Stone is a good course but you are right is too pricy. Visit http://www.spanish-aid.co.uk/ to learn Spanish free, Also there are recommended affordable Spanish books and courses, free tutoring and free aids like exercises and audio page. Check it out!

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Try using sources on the internet. There are plenty of websites that are free. I am not sure how old you are, but if you are still in high school, try arranging sessions with your Spanish teacher so you can learn to speak in a more advanced level. If you are out of high school, try taking college courses. You can enroll and take one class at a time. A lot of colleges dont have required prerequisits so you can take a higher level than starting at the first. Also, join some chat groups or Yahoo groups that speak only in spanish. Or like someone else suggested, go work for a fast food restaurant. Just kidding. If you have a Chipotle ( which by the way is owned by McDonald's) near you, you could apply and work part time. Everyone there is either of Spanish decent or speaks Spanish.

You can look for free lessons on line.

These are a few sites that have some lessons that might be helpful to start with

http://www.youtube.com/user/spanishinstructor for spanish conjugations

or

http://www.porandpara.com/ for other Spanish topics

Some of the best free online Spanish language courses :

http://spanish.about.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish

Materials for self-study :

http://www.omniglot.com/books/language/spanish.htm

http://eurotalk.com/us/store/learn/spanish

http://eurotalk.com/us/store/learn/mexicanspanish (Latin American Spanish)

The Internet offers a lot. check out this link: http://www.easiestwaytolearnspanishonline.com/