Guides · For English speakers learning Spanish
How to actually learn Spanish by reading
Long-form, opinionated guides to the part of Spanish that most courses skip: getting enough real input, at the right difficulty, often enough for it to work. Written by the people who measure the difficulty of a text for a living.
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How to learn Spanish by reading the news
Reading the news is the cheapest way to get hundreds of hours of real Spanish in front of your eyes. It is also the fastest way to quit, if you pick the wrong article. Here is the method that makes it work, and the one judgement call that decides whether a given article is worth your morning.
- MethodB1
How to break the B1 plateau in Spanish
B1 is where Spanish stops being a subject you are studying and starts being a language you are failing to use. Almost everyone stalls here, and almost everyone responds by doing more of whatever got them here. This guide is about why that does not work, and what does.
- Exam preparationB1
DELE B1 reading practice, done properly
Reading is the DELE B1 paper you can prepare for almost entirely on your own — and the one where working through past papers is the least efficient way to do it. This guide is about building the underlying reading ability first, then using practice papers to check it.
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Easy Spanish news for learners: the options, compared
If you want to learn Spanish from the news, the hard part is not finding news. It is finding news you can actually read at your level, often enough to build a habit. Here are the main options English speakers use, what each one is good at, and where each one falls short — including ours.
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