Bros, how should i start learning spanish? i checked the wiki but im looking for some good books and text stuff...

whatever you do, discard anything related to Spain, is the worst spanish

Also, avoid confusing regionalisms. I'd strongly suggest you to stick to Spanish from a particular region, and in my opinion Spanish from Spain is your best option

>step 1: does the language uses the alphabet you already now? (YES: go to step two) (NO: learn the alphabet first, the way it is prononuced and how to write it, then go to step two)
As if any language had the same spelling system as English.

>esh que tio voshtrosh losh shudacash no shabeish hablar bien jolinesh

Such a terrible obsession

Good god, let it go

Why are Mexicans on here so obsessed with mocking Spanish accents, even though they vary drastically from region to region?

entro, veo sudaquitas seetheando, me voy.

they are worthless to us as americans. You are going to run into centroamericans and mexicans and south americans who have never heard people use "vosotros", it's completely alien. Why would you learn vocab that no one is going to understand? Don't lie and meme to yourself that you'll land a job in Spain or something when their unemployment is 40% and there are 500 million native Spanish speakers already.

You didn't answer the question and offered nothing of value. We have be posting under the same flag, but we're not the same. Learning LatAm Spanish is good on the basis of proximity, but over time you'll learn about Peninsular Spanish as well because that's how studying the language goes. Either way, unless slang is being spoken, all Spanish speakers understand each other just fine. I don't get where this asinine idea of not being able to communicate due to "learning vocab that no one is going to understand" comes from.

We may be*

spanish is hard
learn deutsch

es el mismo

It may help to know why it is you want to study Spanish.

just wanna learn another language, i know french pretty well but i have no practical use for it, also latinas are hot as fuck

Does any particular culture/country spark your interest?

i really like the high energy parts of the culture but i dont know much about latin america or spain otherwise

pues nada tío a aprender leyéndote El Quijote, la literatura más importante de la historia de la humanidad

ustedes/vosotros comes from peninsular spanish and it's use depends on the region, honestly speaking your post doesn't make any sense because you can apply it to any regional variant.

It's literally impossible for gringos to land a decent spanish accent anyway lol they always sound like cowboys because of the way english twists and shits on vowels.

Well, here's what worked for me: Like you, I knew another Romance language coming into learning Spanish. I picked it up for a few reasons:

No. 1: Being able to speak English and Spanish is very good for employment.

No. 2: I somewhat recently (last 5 or so years) learned about my father's side of the family, which sparked an interest in Spain.

No. 3: My current girlfriend is Mexican, and I wanted to be able to communicate with her family without having her translate.

I could always understand, but now I can hold conversations, read, etc. I have to "warm up" a bit before I can speak without my native accent. One of the Mexican anons mentioned the immersion route. This is sort of what I did. At work, I get a lot of Hispanic clients that I usually had to defer to my native-speaker co-workers. But I saw that in rare instances where they weren't available, I could still communicate with a combination of hand gestures and reasonable mutual intelligibility.

To me, the first step was realizing that I'm still entirely able to transmit information in what was then a relatively unknown language to me.

So I looked at movies and TV shows, started listening to podcasts, looking at old notes from high school Spanish (which only helped a bit because I was always skipping school...) etc. I started developing situational awareness and vocabulary through this, and using things like Reverso Context.

The "immersion" came in when I started taking the Spanish-speaking clients. They're a good chunk of our base, and being that they all come from different places it helped train my ear to all the variations in vocabulary and accents. To me, this is VERY fun.

Going to places like Mexico, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Argentina and the like and being able to speak for myself was immensely satisfying also.

In short: Consume Hispanic media, get comfortable with a dictionary/thesaurus. You can sometimes rely on another romance language as padding. Maybe plan a trip sometime.

La verdad esq todo el mundo te aceptarán hablando español por lo tanto q sea claramente dicho y q anúncies. El vos de los argentinos, el vosotros de los españoles, o cualquier otra forma de hablar será entendido

Aprende español, man