Why choose the typical, traditional ways to learn Spanish online, when you can have some fun with it?

Learning a language shouldn't be confined to a 'one-size-fits-all' curriculum taken place at a lecture hall.Depending on your personality, lifestyle, and preferences, you can choose from any of the limitless creative ways to learn Spanish online. To save you the time, we've hand-selected 17 of our personal creative ways to learn Spanish online if you're busy.Hope this helps you.

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For the social butterflies
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1. Find a favorite penpal at a conversation exchange online

There's something inherently mysterious and exciting about having a penpal that lives on the other side of the world -- whom you've never met in-person!While this concept may have been strange a decade ago, today it's perfectly normal to meet a stranger online and build a real friendship. In fact, you can learn Spanish (or any other language) by finding a penpal online. There are websites specifically designed to help you find language partners that not only speak your target language, but is also looking to learn the language you're fluent in (i.e. English).

If you're not into conversing live, don't worry. You can choose your method of communication, which includes text messaging as well.Check out websites like My Language Exchange or Conversation Exchange to learn more.

2. Join a language meetup/club in your local city

Are you looking to meet people in-person and learn how to speak Spanish with like-minded individuals? Language meetups may be your preference of choice.Using websites like Meetup.com or Eventbrite.com, you can find language exchange meetups in your local city, whether you live in New York City, or a small county.

3. Get friendly with the Couchsurfers by going to a local event

What's different about Couchsurfing than other meetup websites is the community. Since website is based around letting a stranger sleep on your couch, it's innately become a trusted and supportive community of avid world travellers, which gives you more things in common before you even meet them.

There are couchsurfing groups and events in just about every city you can imagine around the world. I've attended events in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Medellin, Colombia; Paris, France; Vancouver, Canada; and more. Check out local events here.

4. Go to a Spanish restaurant with friends and order in Spanish

Are you a foodie? Do you love exploring foreign restaurants and experimenting with delicious food from all around the world? Why not learn Spanish in the process?

Use Yelp.com to explore foods that come from Spanish-speaking countries with fellow foodie friends or do some exploring on your own! We personally recommend tapas from Spain and asado from Argentina, with a glass of malbec red wine from Mendoza, Argentina.

5. Start dating in Spanish

Looking to spice up your dating life? Speaking in a different language usually helps!While there's no right method to go about this properly, you can certainly take advantage of using filters on dating websites to help you discover more people from Spanish-speaking countries.It's hard to find a better motivation to learn a foreign language than love.
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For entertainment addict
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6. Laugh your cheeks off watching Spanish-speaking vloggers on Youtube

A fun and entertaining way to learn Spanish on the side is to choose from many of the hilarious Spanish-speaking vloggers on Youtube to watch. You can laugh your cheeks off while learning a new language at the same time. Can't get better than that!

7. Go on a Netflix binge with Spanish audio (subtitles if you're a beginner)

Love to Netflix and 'Chill'? The good news is, Netflix has Spanish audio and subtitles for just about every movie, documentary, and TV show on their platform.We recommend listening to it in Spanish audio as much as you can. If you're a complete beginner, then you can start with Spanish subtitles and work your way up from there.

The key here is to watch films or TV shows that you would normally watch on your spare time, so that it doesn't feel like work. If you love watching stand-up comedians, then watch it in Spanish. If you love re-watching the constant make-up and break-up between Ross and Rachel on Friends, watch it in Spanish!

8. Play scrabble online with friends in Spanish

Scrabble is one of the most popular word games in the world. Many of us grew up playing it in our target language, and it's a fun and a great way to get your brain fired up. Today, you can even play it on your desktop or smartphone with friends online. If you don't have friends that want to play in Spanish, we highly encourage playing with other native speakers, and see how you match up against them!

Check out POGO if you want to know which website to play on.

9. Play online video games and interact in Spanish

If board games isn't your first choice, why not play some modern games online? Whether it's Twitch, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Age of Empire, there's an avid community of gamers in Latin America and just about every Spanish-speaking country around the world that you can build friendships with.

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For busy professionals on-the-go
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10. Take private 1-on-1 lessons on Rype, and learn anytime, anywhere.

If you live a busy life on-the-go, and want to work with the top professional language teachers in as little as 30 minutes, then we encourage you to try Rype (for free!) Whether you live in Australia, the United States, or in Singapore, we have professional language teachers that can fit your busy schedule, and you can even take lessons on your phone to maximize your time! Try it here.
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11. Listen to a Spanish podcast on your commute to work

A complementary tool to use with your private teacher on Rype is listening to podcasts on your commute to work, whether you're stuck in traffic or on the train ride. News in Slow is a great option to start with for beginners.
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12. Complete a Duolingo challenge every week

Duolingo is another great complimentary tool to help you gain a better grasp of grammar and vocabulary on your spare time. The gamified approach of earning badges and leveling up makes it a fun tool for beginners to dip their feet into the Spanish pool.

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13. Learn 10 words every morning

When you're first getting started in learning Spanish or any language, learning the most common 1,000 words can be the best bang for your time. That's because in any language, only 20% of the vocabulary we know makes up our everyday conversations. Think about the last time you used aardvark or idiosyncratic in your regular conversations last week!

At Rype, we have a free language challenge that shares ten of the most common words in Spanish every morning. The goal is that by learning ten of the most common words per day, you can learn 1,000 of the most common words in 100 days, which helps you become familiar with 92.7% of the oral language.

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For the self-doers
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14. Go on a Wikipedia binge in Spanish

If you're a fan of Wikipedia, you can set up an additional challenge for yourself by reading it in Spanish. At the time of this writing, there are over 1.29M Wikipedia articles in Spanish, which should be enough to last you for a lifetime!

15. Switch your Facebook Feed into Spanish

Facebook can be a really useful way to spend your time (as ironic as this may sound!) by switching your language to Espanol. Sometimes just reading articles in Spanish is not enough to help you understand small nuances in social conversations like slang words. This can certainly help with that.

16. Write in your daily journal in Spanish

If you write in a daily journal to reflect your thoughts for the day, try switching it and improve your writing skills in Spanish!

17. Post on social media in your native language (i.e. English) and Spanish at the same time

To take your writing skills in the social setting, you can also try posting your social media updates on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat (or whichever social media channels you prefer) in your target language AND in Spanish. Again, doing this will force you to write not just in the most grammatically correct way, but in an informal and casual format that you would normally talk in your target language. Who knows, you could even inspire some of your friends to learn Spanish with you!

What's your favorite way to learn Spanish?

We hope this list helped inspire a fun and creative way to learn Spanish without choosing traditional boring classes. Today, there countless solutions to help you learn a language no matter how busy you are or what your budget is.

We recommend choosing 1-3 solutions from this list and just trying it out for one week. Then narrow down which ones are the most effective for you, and do it for another week. Then another week, and another. By the time you've done it for 30 days, it will start to become a routine that's integrated into your life, and this is the real secret to learning a language.

Good luck, and let us know below what your favorite tools/solutions are, and any other suggestions we should include next time!