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www.duolingo.com to get started on some structured Spanish lessons (free)
www.fluentin3months.com for general guidelines and tips on how to gain oral communication skills quickly (free, and the book is worth it if you become genuinely interested in learning languages)
I taught myself French mainly with Duolingo, but I also found Easy French Step-by-Step helpful. Also, Fluent in 3 Months has lots of great tips for general language learning.
If you practice daily, becoming conversational in French by summer end is perfectly doable. What I did is, learn a few new words on weekdays (around 5-10), and then review them all on weekends. Focus on the more common words and phrases, basically what you'd need to know if you were going on a short trip to France. Listen to radio/music too, so your brain gets used to the language.
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Good luck on your endeavor!
Japanese was the first language I tried teaching myself... I made an ungodly number of flash cards (the old fashioned way... I tore 3x5 cards into 4ths and made little cards) and tried to study them that way. I figure I had around 12,000 of them by the end... haha. Anyway, a few years after stopping the japanese, I decided to pick up spanish... I got roughly as far in 9 months or something with spanish I had in years with Japanese, just by switching up a few study habits. First up... dictionary style flashcards are useless. (Is that what you're using? Like, a few english words on one side to rough out a meaning, and a single japanese word on the other?). Just by using whole sentences instead, I made way more progress. So like, say I needed to add a card for water. Just add a sentences instead, ideally with a grammar point you're struggling with a little. Yeah it's best not to practice translation, but when starting out, you need simple ways to cue sentences in japanese... for better or worse, an english sentence is one way to do that. Plus, if you have 5 or 10 different flashcards, all of which happen to include a grammar point you used to suck at... well, the only way to really learn it is to use it in a range of different situations. This isn't as good as using it in a number of sentences naturally while writing/speaking, but it's a pretty good hack that'll get you 80% of the way there without having to be creative.
The next thing that'll help is actually writing/speaking, even if you're shit at it. If you have a few bucks, pick up fluent in three months... it's a cool little meta language-learning riff that I found pretty helpful. Most it won't be earth shattering and new maybe, but if it helps change your study habits and approach a bit and gets you out of your comfort zone earlier instead of later, then it was a wise investment. Anyway... I taught myself a ton just by reading, but (for me at least) I've decided it's literally impossible to learn a language without actually using it to create. Writing, or better yet, speaking. Not how I naturally want to do things (I'll speak when I'm perfect!) but fuck it, if you want to really learn, you do what works.
I would recommend you start by buying this book. It's been of great help to me! Give it a try! It'll change the way you think about learning a language.
https://www.amazon.es/Fluent-Months-Anyone-Language-Anywhere-ebook/dp/B00DB3D352