If you want to listen some podcasts in Spanish, it would be interesting you tried to read and listen at the same time. http://www.ver-taal.com/telediario.htm here you can read some news and their transcriptions (and there are some exercise of comprehension as well). You should learn some basic grammar: knowing the most important verbs and their simple forms (because the verbs is probably the most difficult thing in Spanish) http://www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm As well as it's necessary to have a good dictionnary, because the Spanish language has many words, in this page you can find any words and you may find solutions for your doubt in its forum: http://www.wordreference.com/es/. And if you like watching movies or series in English you can see them with Spanish subtitles, it's a good way to learn some grammars structures and some vocabulary. Good luck!!!!!