French
French for Business Professionals: Reading Your Way to Workplace Fluency
Business French is a vocabulary layer on top of general French. Here's how reading graded articles at B1 builds the professional register you need.
Reading practice that improves your comprehension
Practical guides to better reading comprehension in Spanish and French, and to reading for work.
Spanish
How to Improve Your Spanish Reading Comprehension: A Practical Guide
Spanish reading comprehension improves through one mechanism above all others: reading at the right level with enough volume. Here is how to do it.
Spanish
Spanish for Healthcare Workers: Building Real Reading Skills
Healthcare workers who need Spanish for patients should start with reading. Learn to build reading skills efficiently with graded Spanish news articles.
French
How to Improve Your French Reading Comprehension: A Practical Guide
How to actually improve French reading comprehension — the three reasons it stalls and the practical daily method that fixes each one.
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Getting startedWhere to begin if you are new to Spanish or French.
Level progressionWhat the CEFR levels mean, how to move from A1 to A2, A2 to B1 and B1 to B2, why learners stall at each stage, and how long each step takes.
Vocabulary & grammarHow many words you need at each level, false friends, and the grammar that confuses learners most, as it appears in real news.
News & sourcesHow to learn by reading the news, which news sites to start with at each level, and when you are ready for El País, BBC Mundo and Le Monde.
Reading methodWhat the research says about reading and comprehensible input, reading compared with listening, and why graded readers often fail adult learners.
Tools & appsHonest comparisons of apps, podcasts and tools for Spanish and French learners, and how reading practice fits next to each one.
Exam prepWhat the reading sections of the Spanish and French exams test, and how daily reading builds the skills they need.