Best Online Resources To Practice Reading Spanish

Practice makes perfect when it comes to learning a language. In addition to working through your various workbooks and audio programs, you should be reading the language at every opportunity. Sure, you could buy Harry Potter in Spanish and struggle through that, but there are plenty of free resources online to do the trick.

Spanish News Online

Reading the news is an ideal way of basic and intermediate learners to practice reading Spanish because journalists tend to avoid using big words of complex grammatical expressions. Even beginners with just a month or so of study under their belt should have no trouble reading most news stories with the help of a good dictionary.

Two of my favorite Spanish news sources are:

CNN en Español

and

BBC Mundo

Even just 10 or 15 minutes per day reading the news, dictionary in hand, will yield dramatic improvements in your Spanish reading comprehension. Once you’re comfortable reading the news without a dictionary, feel free to make the jump to literature. But I think the news offers a relatively straightforward and free way for most learners to get their start.