Herman Melville
Challenging14 h 30 min read
Learn Spagnolo
Challenging Spagnolo reading
Long or richly written classics. Short books in clear sentences, each with English beside it as the books open. Start with one you already know.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Challenging4 h 50 min read
Tobias Smollett
Challenging10 h 10 min read
Henry Fielding
Challenging22 h 50 min read
Charles Dickens
Challenging20 h 10 min read
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Challenging13 h 50 min read
George Eliot
Challenging21 h 40 min read
Petronio Arbitro
Challenging6 h 20 min read
Louisa May Alcott
Challenging13 h 10 min read
Henri Bergson
Challenging2 h 30 min read
Tobias Smollett
Challenging10 h 20 min read
T. Smollett
Challenging12 h 50 min read
Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
Challenging16 h 10 min read
José Rizal
Challenging7 h 30 min read
Bram Stoker
Challenging10 h 50 min read
Charles Dickens
Challenging24 h 10 min read
John Cleland
Challenging5 h 30 min read
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Challenging16 h 10 min read
William Makepeace Thackeray
Challenging20 h 30 min read
Jane Austen
Challenging10 h 50 min read
Marcel Proust
Challenging12 h 50 min read
Walter Scott
Challenging12 h 50 min read
Laurence Sterne
Challenging12 h 30 min read
François Rabelais
Challenging20 h 20 min read
The method
How to learn Spagnolo with the classics
Reading real books with the translation beside you builds vocabulary in context, and hearing them read aloud trains your ear at the same time.
- Pick a book at your level.Start with an Easy story, ideally one you already know.
- Read side by side.Spagnolo on one side, English on the other, paragraph by paragraph.
- Listen as you read.Hear the Spagnolo read aloud, and slow it down when you need to.
- Check, don’t translate.Read a paragraph in Spagnolo first, then look across or tap it.
- Read a little every day.Ten minutes a day takes you through a short book in a few weeks.
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