Hi,
I am living in the Costa Blanca in an urbanisation that has a mainly English population. I am early retired and trying to learn Spanish at home. I am using the Pimsleur speak & Read Essential Spanish tapes and am onto the middle of the 2nd course.

I have lots of grammer books, but I am not using these at the moment as I find it confusing following too many different teaching methods.

In your opinions, do you think that this is a good way to learn? I have a very basic understanding of the background grammer being used, having had some private lessons to start with, but the grammer is not explained on the tapes. Instead, it uses a listen and repeat method, much as a baby/child would learn their native language.
My plans are just to learn enough to hold a decent conversation and be able to read and write a little, not to take it any further than that. Is there any other teaching method that you would recommend that I could do from home?

Jan