[feiss]

This is great, amazing idea!

However, I don't understand why you chose don quixote. That's not modern, normal, everyday prose, it was written 400 years ago.. any spanish kid would have trouble understanding it.

Any other modern (less than 100 years) and famous novel would be much adequate for learning spanish.

[Phillip98798]

I agree it’s not very prosaic. I guess it has marketing value being a notorious story. Hopefully I can wrap it up and do a more modern novel. Any suggestions?

[ivanmaeder]

100 Years of Solitude?

[anemoiac]

This is what we used for reading & translating long passages in my American high school’s Spanish 5/AP Spanish course. I don’t have much to compare it to, but it seemed like a good choice at the time.

[cko]

Is Love in the time of cholera both notorious and prosaic enough?

[anthk]

Modern as in classical modern or today's thrillers?

[varispeed]

It would be fun to go to Mexico or Spain and talk 400 years old Spanish like it's normal.

[mikewarot]

Judging from the way it was portrayed in https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4136774/ "The Ministry of Time / El ministerio del tiempo" your fate was at the hands of arbitrary and capricious authorities.

[arbitrary_name]

I have been reading game of thrones in Spanish and it's hilarious what has happened to my vocab. Ability to describe armor and varieties of horses? Check. Ability to use slang or informal language relevant to peers? Not so much.

[anthk]

Any medieval fair held by crust punks will mimic that old Spanish so-so.