You will find that there are many free courses to begin with, but the first thing you will have to ask yourself is why are these courses actually being offered for free? Especially when other courses are still being sold elsewhere.
Generally, there are only three reasons why anything is offered for free online and they are the following:
1 As an enticement to purchase another related product or as a sales promotion.
2 The product wouldn't sell, so now it is being given away. (The question you should be asking yourself is why wouldn't it sell? You'll probably find that the answer is that the product is complete rubbish).
3 The product is outdated and therefore has no monetary value or appeal any longer.
With an online Spanish course all three of these reasons could be applied.
However, if you are dead set on finding a free way to learn Spanish online, I would have to initially advise you to visit the website of the BBC.
The BBC offer a fantastic free website offering an abundance of educational material that you can use to study Spanish; you can find this website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Although the course material is designed to accompany the Spanish educational TV programming offered by the BBC it can be used on its own and is probably the best FREE Spanish resource you will be able to find.
There are also many websites that relate to different aspects of the Spanish language available online.
These include free translation sites, dictionary sites and verb conjugation sites all worth book-marking for future reference.
With a lot of digging and patching together you could actually put together a rag tag course of Spanish freebies. But is searching and compiling a makeshift course really a good use of your time when you will benefit much more from one of many excellent online courses, most available for under $100!
You should also consider that the one thing you will struggle to find for free online is a complete interactive audio course aimed at getting you to a good level of conversational Spanish quickly, for this you will need to look at purchasing a course.
There are many excellent budget priced Spanish language courses available online and the quality of the course material on offer makes them extremely good value for money and a great deal more worthwhile than trying to learn spanish with a poorly thought out free course!
