Learning a new language is never an easy task. getting into a new way of saying things, a new morphology, new syntaxis..Pasos does really help though. Tons of exercise, easy to memorise vocabulary lists, interresting texts..Try to buy the complete pack (with the recordings and the activity book). get yourself a English - Spanish - English dictionnary.. that s all you will ever need . I m using it at home , for self studies..and it works perfectly. Also, it really does help to either watch spanish TV or listen to spanish radio (Cadena Dial on Astra 1.)
It s amazing how helpful it is, even if you don t understand it all.