I've been reading in Spanish for a couple of years now. I started with Harry Potter, and now I've recently worked my way up to reading the novels of Carlos Ruiz Zafón. It's been challenging, especially because he writes in such beautiful but often complex prose. The main thing that helps is that I read them all before in English, so I know the basic story. Another huge assist comes from keeping the Lens (camera) feature of Google translate open on my phone so I can just grab it anytime I come to a word or passage that I can't decipher. I've needed to use it less and less as I go, but it has vastly increased my enjoyment of reading in Spanish (vs. having to type in words and sentences to translate them).
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I've been reading in Spanish for a couple of years now. I started with Harry Potter, and now I've recently worked my way up to reading the novels of Carlos Ruiz Zafón. It's been challenging, especially because he writes in such beautiful but often complex prose. The main thing that helps is that I read them all before in English, so I know the basic story. Another huge assist comes from keeping the Lens (camera) feature of Google translate open on my phone so I can just grab it anytime I come to a word or passage that I can't decipher. I've needed to use it less and less as I go, but it has vastly increased my enjoyment of reading in Spanish (vs. having to type in words and sentences to translate them).