What is the best way to learn a foreign language as an adult?

Honestly, the best way is to learn with another person if you can.

I'd also check your local public library. A lot of them have subscriptions for language learning programs.

Immersion in the language. Moving to somewhere where everyone speaks it. Trying to think in that language rather than the constant translation from it to English in your head.

Hire a Mexican maid.

Duolingo is fine as a daily habit tool, but it's free for a reason. If you really want to learn you are going to need to go much further.

I've tried several out and keep coming back to pimsleur though it's personal preference. It works best for me to use during my commutes.

Also youtube is a great resource but try to subscribe to channels that speak almost exclusively in the language you want to learn but with English subtitles, as opposed to them saying something in English and then saying it again in Spanish. It's a bit more active learning the first way.

Start watching movies, or stuff on Netflix in Spanish. Basically if you aren't going to uproot yourself and move to a Spanish speaking country (which who can do that) then you just gotta find other ways to really immerse yourself.

Cross the border going South and stay there a few years.

I had 13 Messicans reroof my house three years ago. I didn't learned how to speak any Spanish during that time but I did learn how to sign language very well with them. I also kind of got into their music by the time they finished.

You don’t have to learn Spanish baw trumps getting elected

Look for a local cultural house for the language you want to learn - like the Deutsches Haus in NOLA offers German classes with fluent speakers.

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I learned French in two weeks

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I mean you didn't, but OK.