I'm a native French speaker who struggled to read novels in English — the tricks that worked probably apply to your Spanish too

Different language, same wall.

I spent two years picking up English novels and quitting around page 10. Not because my level was too low — I could hold a conversation fine. But reading fiction broke me every time. Too many unknowns, too much friction, too little flow.

What finally worked, and why I think it translates directly to what you're doing with Spanish:

1. Re-read something you already love. I did Harry Potter in English. Already knew every plot beat, so my brain wasn't splitting attention between story and language. For Spanish, this is even easier — so much great content exists in Spanish that you've probably already seen dubbed or subtitled.

2. Embrace not knowing. Look up only what makes the sentence fully incomprehensible. Everything else: keep moving. You'll see it again. The re-encounter is what actually builds retention, not the lookup.

3. One-tap lookups or forget it. Any friction kills the reading session. For vocabulary, Kindle's dictionary is solid. For grammar — why does this reflexive verb work this way in this sentence — it falls apart completely.

That grammar gap is what I ended up building a small tool for. It gives in-context grammar and cultural explanations on PDFs. I made it, so take that as you will — but I'm genuinely curious whether it's useful for Spanish learners specifically, and I'll give free credits to anyone willing to try it on a Spanish text and tell me what's broken.

What are you reading right now, or trying to read?