You want to learn Spanish as it would make your life much easier and you would be capable of helping more people on your job. But you do not want to learn a stilted version as some people has.
You want to learn conversational Spanish. You want to talk to people in their own language and have a good conversation with them that does not make you sound like a second grader.
You live in an area where Spanish is prevalent everywhere you go. Whether it is the grocery store or doctor’s office you can hear the flow of conversations in Spanish all around you but you have no idea what they are saying.
You catch a few words of the Spanish conversation as you cannot help but know a few words from growing up with it. You want to change that. Plus your boss would greatly appreciate it if you knew more Spanish to help out when the translator could not be there. So you decide to give it a whirl.
Make sure you choose format that will teach you the idioms as well as the formal version. You will need to know the idioms of the conversational Spanish in order to effectively communicate.
Think about it a bit. Do a translation to Spanish from English. This party rocks. You need to know the idiom in English and translate it correctly. The same goes for your conversational Spanish. You need a course or teacher that knows these things and you need to learn them.
