I think you need an anchor that makes him enjoyable to study Spanish language. Make a list with ussualy phrases and translate into your language. Then inside in youtube (r) or similar pages and listen that phrases. The chineese language yes, if real complicated... ;-)

hello i am of Mexico and i know vwry good the spanish,if you want i teach you. But you can learn good,learnig the alfabet. It is the words:A B C D E F G H I J K L M N Ñ O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z;AND READING:A ,BE C,E ,DE ,E ,FE G,E ACHE I ,JOTA ,KA ,ELE ,EME ,ENE ,EÑE ,O ,PE ,QU(CU), RE, ESE ,TE, U ,UVE ,DOBLEU ,EQUIS, IGRIEGA ,ZETA

Get all material you can! It will all be useful in some moment. Expose yourself as much as you can to the language. I have a couple of PDFs about spanish i could send you if you'd like, just give me your email via a message

You can start, studying the basics at this site wwwmasteranylanguage.com (greetings,colors,days of the week, months of the year, some verbs, some common words.)