Finally Reading, so happy.

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In a journey marked by persistence and community, I’ve finally discovered the joy of reading in my target language. Two years in, daily Anki sessions, and an hour of listening each day have paved the way. Recently, I found content that strikes the perfect balance — engaging, comprehensible, and immersive. Gone are the days of dread; now, I eagerly dive into reading for at least 30 minutes daily. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, remember: it’s all about finding that Goldilocks zone.

So this community has helped me so much in my language journey. I am about 2 years in, I do my anki daily, I dabble in some content on youtube with language reactor, and I try to listen to an hour per day in my TL.

Finally, I was able to find some content that 1) kept me interested in reading (I use LingQ, it's good and bad), and secondly, I CAN EASILY get immersed because the book setting is incredible, I understand 90% of the content in each sentence, and it keeps me guessing/moving along.

It clicked!!! Before, I would get over-whelmed, exhausted, and loathe logging in to try to read. Now, it's like, "wow I want to spend AT LEAST 30 minutes today trying to read".

So, for anyone that is overwhelmed with reading, (even though I'm sure it's been said before), maybe the content is too hard, too easy was too boring, too hard was overwhelming, it's really the goldi-locks sample.

I just wanted to share so that in the event even 1 person can gain from this then it's not wasted as this took me a LONG time to figure out (2 years) haha. Thanks again to an amazing community.

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