I'm going to be traveling around Latin and South America in a few months. My Spanish is pretty much non existent and I've been trying to prepare myself as much as I can before I leave. My goal is to be able to speak conversational Spanish so I can at least get my ideas across.

I've tried programs like "The Rosetta Stone" but found it to be boring as hell:

Pero. Pero. Pero. *click*

I heard that Super Memo is good for learning languages. I was thinking about just inputting Spanish vocabulary and trying to memorize as much as I can.

But anyways, what's are some good ways to learn conversational Spanish. I'm focusing on grammar and vocabulary.