Spanish book 2

It's trucking along nicely. With reading (and this is also true for people learning to read in their own native language), there is a tipping point where you as the reader can actually get meaning out of the text. Like, there's a story in there and you can winkle it out of its shell with a reasonable amount of effort.

Textual awareness helps. It helps A LOT, like shitbuckets of A Lot. I am scaffolded in my Spanish reading efforts by having an absolutely stellar grasp of how stories work, sort of a what to expect when you are reading. I know how dialogue works. I understand the way a coming-of-age epic swords-n-sorcery story should work. I can map riffs onto Harry Potter and other similar franchises. I am not at all going in blind.

But still, actual reading. (I am very excited about this.)

( Wanna see? )