Originally Posted by
XylathaneGTR
I did Spanish for a year with Duolingo - lost my streak due to time-zones when flying back from Toronto and it crushed my motivation to continue, haha.
It's not a bad way to get familiar with words, phrases, and syntax. My wife was learning as well, so it gave us an opportunity to practice a bit. A year later i've lost some of it, but some words, phrases, and syntax remain and I think I could pick it up again.
Never hurts to begin, and they offer a pretty easy/user-friendly (and free) platform.