If you live in Spanish can you help me with book advice?

[Ekerty72]

Evening all!

I'm learning Spanish and wondered if anyone can recommend an early reading system that I could work through?

Everything I look at is too difficult and google isn't coming up with many suggestions :-(

Thank you!!

Doh that should clearly be live in Spain!! Sorry....

I was thinking something equivalent to Biff and Chip, maybe a bit harder...

My dh has been learning Spanish for a few years. He buys books on Amazon.es. Just go on there and navigate to children's early reading books.

But my dh started with books he already knew well, like Harry Potter.

Hi OP.

Recommendations for books to read when learning Spanish- is this for a child or for yourself?
Can you/ your child speak any Spanish?

I would recommand kid's books as they're usually shorter and easier to read than adult books. Also bilingual books are an option. And if you have kindle or similar you ought to be able to have a dictionary included, so you can just click on difficult words to get a translation.

Sorry I was confused and read again your first post, seems to be for you.

This is the best advice someone gave me to learn English fluently 20 years ago (when I moved to Ireland):
Don't try to watch or read complicated stuff like documentaries or the news (not yet).

You will learn with soap operas type of programs (and I hate them!) and easy to read romantic novels (don't like them either).
Those programs and books use really simple vocabulary, you won't have any issue to grasp the whole story. Avoid dictionaries. The aim is to read and listen to the language until you won't need to translate in your head.
Once you master this level (maybe after a year) go for slightly more complicated stuff.

Best of luck, que tengas mucha suerte, el español es muy fácil!

This is all brilliant advice thank you so much!!

It's for me, I struggle with the adult spanish learning books, like the collins ect, and after seeing my children through the entire biff and chip series I had a brainwave that the equivalent might help me too!

I'd not thought of amazon.ie , excellent tip!

Ekerty, did you have a secret early-teen love for Mills and Boon (I did). I discovered while raiding a holiday hotel bookshelf that I could read them pretty well in French because of the relatively narrow vocabulary and very predictable plot. If you get them on a kindle and install the dictionary for Spanish, you can get the translated word instantly. It's always nice to know the words in other languages for things like 'throbbing manhood' and so forth. I'm sure it would come in handy!

Something like this? As a native, I found the narrative lacked depth, so it could actually be ok for someone who is learning Spanish

Or a children's book which you might already know in English?

@ElizabethinherGermanGarden yes I did!! Good call!

@LaFloristaCalista I devoured the famous five when little, and was actually looking for the Spanish equivalent a while ago so thanks for that!

I'm loving learning the language 😊😊

Have you looked at graded readers? I much prefer them to kids’ books for that stage when you want to read but aren’t ready for an adult book aimed at native speakers. I suggest putting that in Google and reading some language blog recommendations as the quality of series varies.

For the next stage, I’ve found simple books that I’ve either read previously in English or am familiar with the author to be very effective. I’ve read quite a few Agatha Christies in Spanish. Simple writing style, straightforward narrative, mystery to keep you interested. Works very well for me.

I read side by side books, so one page was in Spanish and the page next to it was the translation in English, so you could easily check the sentence if needed. This helped my comprehension as well as translation.