you should get around some hispanics and ask them to speak spanish to you.
practice is the best when learning a new language,
i just learned english and i’m really good at it.

look out for spanish students on your black board or in the local press, or at local institutes where spanish-speaking students study english. make a tandem with them, they want to learn english, you spanish. doing that you will learn spanish with a lot of fun. i did it ))

good luck

you can get good information in the Cervantes Institute if you have some near your place. If not, enter in their website for information. it would be good for you to learn spanish with native teachers, bcoz on the contrary u’ll get some ways to pronounce that wont be “properly” spanish.
Also, you can get some spanish speaker friends, that way you can practice with them
After you graduate, you can come to any of the countries that have spanish as language and get it better.

Good luck

buy some spanish tapes and listen to them and practice
watch a spanish speaking tv station
pbs has shows geared to learning conversational spanish watch or tape them if you are not home when they are on
how long it takes you is up to your ability and determination to learn the language