Yo compre diez libros...

[poli]

Originally Posted by Alfonso

Hi, MonteChristo,
I think everything you do for learning Spanish would be OK if you can take advantage of it. And those problems that can appear shouldn't discourage you.
Anyway, when you start learning a language, and you like to read, there are thousands of lecturas facilitadas (I have to write this in Spanish as I don't know what to call this in English) that can make your trip a little less hard. They are specifically written in an easy and worth to learn language in language that's easy and worthy of learning. These books are also classified into by language levels, so you have from beginners to advanced learners. I hope this will help you.

Can anybody help me? What you call in English lecturas facilitadas?

Simplified versions.

[MonteChristo]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

What was the whole sentence that you found this word in?

Con mis blancas ovejitas felices dias pasamos. Yo les doy la mamadera y a la mamita jugamos.

Wth my little white sheep we pass the days happily. I give them the baby bottle and we play like I'm their mommy.

Am I close? It seems this really doesn't translate word for word. So I'm hoping to capture the meaning in my translation.
I may be way off. If so, enlighten me please.

MC

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by Rusty

I suppose lecturas facilitadas would be Easy Readers in English.

Originally Posted by poli

Simplified versions.

I think both of those options are good.

Originally Posted by MonteChristo

Con mis blancas ovejitas felices dias pasamos. Yo les doy la mamadera y a la mamita jugamos.

Wth my little white sheep we pass the days happily. I give them the baby bottle and we play like I'm their mommy.

Am I close? It seems this really doesn't translate word for word. So I'm hoping to capture the meaning in my translation.
I may be way off. If so, enlighten me please.

I think you've captured it pretty well. Great job!

[gatitoverde]

I agree with the term easy reader. I have one written for German about a century ago. The editor calls it a primer, but I believe that's simply a broad term for textbooks that teach children to read. I'd go out on a limb in saying that it is, bar none, the best tool I've ever found to learn a language. Over the course of 100 pages, the editor slowly adds new words and more difficult constructions to simplified fairytales, some adapted from the Brothers Grimm. I've since tried to find similar books for Russian to no avail. And yes, I'm peppering my writing with idioms, but not intentionally. I just talk like that.

[Tomisimo]

Yes, progressive reading where it starts out simple, new vocabulary is added slowly and previous vocabulary is constantly reviewed, is one of the best ways to learn. It goes right along with Krashen's i + 1 acquisition theory.