Why would you ever need to buy Spanish study materials. With one rare exception, free sources are really the best. If one searches for Spanish study on the Internet many sites pop up which approach the study of Spanish from many different angles. Do you want conversational assistance? Do you want help with grammar? Are sources for reading materials such as online news or free or inexpensive magazine subscriptions what you are looking for? All these Ira Riklis knows are as close as your computer. Don’t have one of your own? Our old friend the public library has computers for use free of charge available during regular library hours.
Speaking of the library, there is a multitude of books and language courses free for the borrowing. Because they have to be returned in a certain period of time there is that little push not to procrastinate but to actually use these resources unlike when you buy a book and it just sits there gathering dust.
If you have any input into the development of Spanish study courses or study groups, you can show the powers that be how it is not necessary to have the students or participants buys Spanish study materials when just looking around, searching on the Internet, noticing package labeling, picking up free pamphlets especially government publications can be a way of studying Spanish for almost no money.
Ira Riklis points out the one exception mentioned above. A little inexpensive book entitled Spanish at a Glance is one item that is worth the small price tag.