It seems very strange indeed that you ask such a basic question as you market yourself as a professional teacher. You claim on your profile to have a very high level of English so presumably you were at the same stage of learning English in the past. Why don't you just apply the same (obviously successful) methods to learning Spanish? 

As one of your potential students I'd be horrified to find out that my teacher has no idea of how to organise a programme of study for herself - what would that say about my chances of learning from you if I was paying you for your advice and so-called expertise?

Hi Julia!

Interesting question, according to the research I have done myself reading language learning books (Fluent Forever-Fluent in 3 Months) and blogs from Tim Ferris or Iwillteachyouhowtolearnalanguage 1 year is a realistic goal for fluency in spanish IF you put a consistent effort (30 minutes a day) and use right methods (flashcards, lot of speaking, watching series).

My recommendation for a beginner are:

-Use apps like Memrise, Duolingo and Lingvist to increase vocabulary/get used to the language at the beginning. Aim for a base vocabulary of 1000 words.

-Talk with natives, this is easy since latin cultures are very talkative and love teaching spanish to people who are interested (for example myself haha). 

-Buy a phrasebook (Lonely Planet) to get familiar with phrases you might use in your travels and get a grammar book to use as a reference once you start identifying patterns in sentences.

-Do not worry too much about conjugations at the beginning, this will start to become more natural once you speak and read more.

Hope it helps! Buena suerte con todo :)

Camilo

Well that very relativ, but in 6 months if you practice every day at least 2 hours I think you can communicate a lot because in spanish pronunciation is not that complicated and not that important either.

If you want to, contact me by private messege and we can communicate by whatssap or something and we could conversate.