Hi my name is Dave and I learned spanish while visiting Mexico for 9 months. I became fluent in about 3 months of immersion in the culture and language. I'm starting a new blog where I help people learn spanish who are coming from a native english speaking background. This is how I see it, if you're a native english speaker it's much easier learning spanish from a person who speaks english natively as well. I think how you think in terms of sentence structure and comparision and I can explain spanish language concepts in such a way so as to be very easily understood. Whereas a native spanish speaker who speaks english as a second language, although may be very intelligent and educated, may have a slight language barrier. That was my experience anyway taking spanish in university after i came back from Mexico.
Sorry for the life story. Anyway, You can come to my blog and start checking it out. Keep in mind I've just started it so there's a lot more to come. But I can definitely help you if you have any questions at all. My email is [E-mail removed. Please put your e-mail on your profile. Thanks] and my blog URL is in my signiture.
Ciao y buena suerte
Dave