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Spanish Reading: Top Tips and Resources for Intermediate to Advanced Level
Once you reach intermediate level Spanish the reading material available becomes a lot more interesting and mentally stimulating. You can start reading the kind of thing you would do in English such as blogs, the Spanish news and even Spanish novels. This article is a pointer to the best reading resources available to the intermediate or advanced level Spanish speaker.
Blogs
There is a huge range of different Spanish blogs to choose from and probably the easiest way to find them to search google.es for ‘blogs sobre’ followed by the topic of your choice.
The advantage of blogs is that the articles are slightly easier than reading a novel in terms of vocab and grammar; the material is made interesting with more video and images used than traditional Spanish news reports and the comments provide an insight into more informal and opinionated Spanish debate. Also you can pick exactly the Spanish topic you want and go into great depth in terms of material and vocabulary.
I would recommend Elle Blogs Espanoles for the fashion lovers out there, Alt 1040 for the tech geeks and for a bit of everything look no further than Manga Verde.
Spanish News
Reading the Spanish news is also really useful to expand your vocab on a variety of themes and to learn a journalistic style of Spanish writing.
There are a great range of newspaper and online news websites available – El Pais and El Mundo and Spanish newspapers providing exhaustive information on current affairs – I try to get online and read at least the headlines each day to keep in touch with what is actually important right now; in this way you know the Spanish vocab and writing style are both going to be incredibly useful to you in the future.
My most highly recommended website is however RTVE, the Spanish national television and radio service website. This site provides news stories with excellent short videos so you can develop your reading and listening simultaneously – there are also loads of useful videos and podcasts available: for info on how to best use RTVE go to http://www.topspanishtips.weebly.com
Spanish Books
The final Spanish writing style you will want to cover with your reading will be that in novels and non-fiction. There are loads of great sites providing a wealth of downloadable Spanish reading material – the most comprehensive of these I have seen is Que de Libros (again just search on google.es). This site provides material on topics as diverse as philosophy and comics. There is also a recommended section and forum so you can find exactly what you are looking for.
I would actually recommend staying away from novels until you reach an advanced level because often the grammar is tricky and will slow you down. Just read as much as you can about a range of different subjects and your Spanish will improve very quickly.
About the Author
http://www.topspanishtips.weebly.com is a collection of the best free Spanish resources on the internet. If you’re learning Spanish from beginner to advanced level we provide those websites to help improve grammar and vocab, reading and writing and even you’re listening and speaking online.
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