[blackhaj7]

When learning Spanish, I found it very useful to re-read books I had originally read in English in Spanish.

You already know the context so can fill in the gaps. Something about this process felt closer to the natural way you learn language growing up and helped develop my intuition for the languages grammar and vocab. I quickly found myself saying words I didn’t know I knew and using tenses I hadn’t yet started actively learning.

Reading aloud was also great for pronunciation as your mouth/tongue is effectively doing “reps” for kind of sound combinations of the language (which are often different to the sound combinations of your own language)