De verdad nos vamos a fiar de Pedro? Las mentiras de Pedro Sánchez: Pedro y Verónica youtube.com/watch?v=WfAvb…
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Verónica Sánchez y su lucha por una operación - Ayuda para difundir y meter presión

El calvario de Verónica comienza el 27 de noviembre del 2013. Ese día acudió al ambulatorio de Galdakao, Vizkaya, por un cólico renal. Allí le pusieron una inyección intramuscular (Nolotil) para calmar el dolor y por una mala praxis o por simple inexperiencia lo hicieron mal, el error le causó síndrome del piramidal, neuropatía del nervio ciático, trocanteritis y un hueso de la cadera desplazado.

Hasta este punto es todo medianamente normal, en España ocurren unos 100.000 errores médicos de distinta gravedad anuales. El problema empieza cuando 4 meses después el traumatólogo le indica que tiene que ser operada. Es una operación complicada, se llama “liberación artroscópica” y en Osakidetza dicen no tener experiencia, por lo que el traumatólogo solicita que la envíen Dr. Pérez Carro, miembro y profesor de la Sociedad Internacional de Artroscopia de cadera (ISHA), el cual es pionero en España en el tratamiento Artroscópico del Choque fémoroacetabular vía artroscópica. Pero se lo denegaron, era muy caro.

Lleva meses, 16 ahora mismo, con muletas y sin poder trabajar ni hacer vida normal con sólo 30 años por culpa de un error médico del que no se quieren hacer cargo.

Hace más de un mes, el 3/02/2015, recibió una llamada que le dio esperanza. Jon Darpón, el consejero de salud del gobierno vasco, la convocaba a una reunión para hablar del tema ya que había visto el movimiento creado en las redes sociales y con la recogida de firmas en Change.org. La recibió su consejero, Jose Luis Quintas, y le indicó que quitase todo, tanto las firmas como la presión en las redes, que ellos le conseguirían la ansiada operación. Lo aceptó sin dudar ni un momento y no volvió a saber nada de ellos.

Desde Nueva Revolución queremos lanzar el llamamiento a la gente que se sienta indignada con la sanidad española y/o vasca, ayudemos a Verónica a conseguir su operación y poder llevar una vida normal.

Firmemos y compartamos en twitter y facebook para presionar al gobierno vasco, el dinero no puede ser más importante que la vida de los ciudadanos:

Firma en Change.org: https://www.change.org/p/gobierno-vasco-leeros-mi-historial-m%C3%A9dico-y-a-ver-si-se-os-cae-la-cara-de-verg%C3%BCenza-y-empezais-a-hacer-algo-que-llevo-un-a%C3%B1o-y-dos-meses-sin-vida-por-una-mala-praxis-en-osakidetza-y-me-habeis-denegado-lo-que-manda-el-traumatologo-para-curarme?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=whatsapp

Contacto con Verónica: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Veronica8430 Facebook: https://www.

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Verónica Sánchez
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Verónica Sánchez y su lucha por una operación nuevarevolucion.es/post/1…
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The lovely Verónica Sánchez
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Verónica Sánchez - UPRM - Química

Esta profesora tiene un conocimiento inmenso en temas relacionados a la química. Me acuerdo que siempre nos explicaba como a niños de Kinder. Pero OJO: había que tener mucho cuidado con sus exámenes, ¡no eran fáciles! Pero después que entendieras el material se pasaba bien la clase.

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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2021

This is a time and a space for mourning. To mourn everyone that has been taken from us. Every love, every passion, every piece of art and every ounce of joy that has been stolen from our future. This is what we are mourning.

In memory of:

Nathalia Leticia Barbosa da Fonseca (“Bia"). Gretell Ceballos Ramírez. Felycya Harris. Michelle Ramos Alarcón ("Brenda"). Antonella R.G. Erick Deseano. Marcos. Paolla Bueno. Adrianinha Paris. Brooklyn DeShauna Smith. An unidentified woman from Santa Rosa Mexico. Susana Silvestre. Selin Aynaci. Sara Blackwood. An unidentified woman from Chicoloapan, Mexico. Viktoria Basakovskaya (Vika). Mickerlange François. Aitiana Valeria Ramírez. An unidentified woman from Tlajomulco De Zúñiga Mexico. Violeta Ramírez Pérez. Sangeetha. Gabriela Ramirez. Bruna Marins de Oliveira. Emy Yruma. Barbara Valencia. Natasha Nascimento. Joana Domingos. Angel Haynes 'Angel Unique'. Juliana Piropo. Arsalan. Vicente González. Cristina Rodríguez. Samylla Marry Windson. Barbie Girl. Sandy da Silva Gomes. Skylar Heath. Alejandra  Estefanía Benítez. Mia Zabala. An unidentified woman from Chilpancingo, Mexico. Ester Vogue. An Unidentified person from Manaus, Brazil. Soledad Rojas Paúcar. Fendi Mon'ezah Armstrong 'Peaches'. Daniela Ramos. Juana Criollo Cabascango. Paquita Brasil. Yunieski Carey Herrera 'Yuni’. Sheila de Oliveira. Asia Jynaé Foster. Kimberly Susan Fia. Chae’Meshia Simms 'ChaeChae’. Bianca Pereira. Cristina Hernández Castillo. Laura. Micaeli Monteverde / Mikaely Campion. Jhennyfer. Giovanna Angulo Ramos. Rayssa Eloá Menezes. Natasha Liverman. Sherlyn Scarleth Villarreal. Johana Morena Mayor. G. Rocha Silva. Tati Quirós. An unidentified woman from Chilpancingo, Mexico.. Alejandra Salazar Villa. Bruna Tenório. Titi Davila. Vicenta de Loris. An unidentified man from Serra, Brazil. Karen Cristina. Juliana da Cruz Costa. Paula Brandão. Sudarshan Suryavanshi. Nataly Lily. Duda. Jaheim Pugh Jaheim Barbie. Maria. Yaelin Maydana Olmedo. An unidentified person from Natal, Brazil. An unidentified girl from Boituva, Brazil. An unidentified person from Panaji, Goa, India. Oreinha. Wanessa Sampaio. Alejandra Salazar. Marcela Estella Vieira. Iratxe Otero. Courtney 'Eshay' Key. Alexandria Winchester. La Tigra Ramirez. Nelly Garcia. Erika. Four Unidentified people from Myanmar. Sapa. Thaw Thaw. Andressa das Chagas. Samantha Riaño Morales. Keron Ravach. Duda Laif/ Eduarda Scarton. Tyianna 'Davarea' Alexander. Lupita da Silva. An unidentified woman from Acap

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Falleció la ex esposa de Robert Lima horas después del infarto del ex futbolista melense futbol.com.uy/Deportes/Fa…
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Spanish Reading from B2+ to a solid C1+ via 50 books over 7 months

Because it's sometimes interesting to read about another's journey:

Main takeaway: Want to know how much reading it takes to go from fighting through a Spanish novel to reading both fluently and accurately? It took me about 10 books before I was reading quickly and reasonably accurately for adult contemporary fiction. But truthfully, it’s taken me the 50+ books to really gain accuracy for Literature (and it will probably take 50 more before I get down to one new word/chapter, let’s say). There are a lot of words to cover.

What I Did: I previously did a seven-month listening phase which brought my listening from B1 to a solid C1. The spillover for reading took me from a B2 to a B2+, I would say. I decided that my next phase would be reading, so that is what I did.

I read 50 “books that counted,” which meant "not kids’ books." (I also read plenty of kids’ books, however.) For my listening phase, I was able to track my hours because Netflix did it for me, basically. Over seven months, they worked out to around 2-3 hours/day of exposure. But what it meant in practice was 1-3 hours during 3-4 days and then really focusing on the weekends. I take the time to say all of this because although I did not track my hours for reading, I kept essentially the same schedule. I also took a month off to learn some Latin. (Highly recommended.)

How I Did It: Again, nothing too extreme. I started with “Los ríos profundos” by José María Arguedas and was shocked by how slowly I was reading. There were also a fair number of new words--by “fair,” I mean a lot, actually. It took me maybe a month(!) to get through 100 pages. I think I should mention that it was a paperback, so lookups necessitated getting to the end of a section and then looking up the terms. I should also mention that “Los ríos profundos” is deadly boring. Oh, yes. I never finished it. I got up to chapter 7 and said, “Okay, I need something easier. Also, a book where something happens.”

That was the wisest thing I did.

I fought my way through half of a children’s novel (La niña que tenía el mar adentro) before stumbling upon the Mexican graded readers. My salvation. I started from grade 1, Generation 1960, and read and looked up every unknown word (that wasn’t defined for me by the reader itself) up through 4th grade. (I read about half of the 5th grade book.) When I returned to the children’s novel

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SERIOUS: This subreddit needs to understand what a "dad joke" really means.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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Resultados IVAsamblea Ciudadana

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Participación:53.443 votos

Comisión de Garantías

Silvia Fernández Castro - Raúl Fuentes Carro - Cristina Cumellas Ros - Ester Alarcón Mora - Carmen Collado Rosique - Carlos Hugo Sánchez Martínez - Francisco de la Torre León - Alicia Madrid Aznares - Fernando Aguilar Fernández - Cristina Martínez Serrano

Consejo Ciudadano Estatal

Irene Montero Gil - Noelia Vera Ruíz - Isabel Serra Sánchez - Rafael Mayoral Perales - Idoia Villanueva Ruíz - Alejandra Jacinto Uranga - Pablo Echenique - Pablo Fernández Santos - Sonia Fernández Castañón - Ignacio Alvarez Peralta - Lilith Vestringe Revuelta - Jaume Asens LLodra - Serigne Mbayé - Juan Manuel del Olmo - Jesica Albiach - Angela Rodríguez Martínez - Pilar Garrido - Julio Rodríguez Fernández - Irene de Miguel - Jose Mª Guijarro García - Noemí Santana - María Boto - Jesús Santos - Pilar Lima Gonzálvez - Beatriz Gimeno - Vicenç Navarro - Antón Gómez Reino - Mª Teresa Arévalo Carballo - Patricia Fernández Pérez - Concepción Abellán Carretero - Javier Sánchez - Daniel de Frutos Ramírez - Alba González - Martina Velarde Gómez - Juan Antonio Delgado Ramos - Laura Fuentes Vega - Maru Díaz - Guillén Carroza Armendáriz - Sergio García Torres - María Marín Martínez - María Teresa Pérez - Pau Vivas López - Francisco Gracia Villamayor - José García Bultrón - Drew Caubet Viladesau - Sandra Astete Muñoz - Amparo Botejara - Roberto Sotomayor - Orencio Osuna - Ester Sanz Selva - Gabriel Castañares Hernández - Allende Marina Palomo Jiménez - Mª Dolores Martín Albo - Ismael Cortés Gómez - Diego Cañamero Valle - Nuria Julbe Linares - Ricardo sa Ferreira - Ana Domínguez Rama - Isabel Franco Carmona - Alejandro Zapico Robledo - Elena Hernández Cortés - Rita Bosaho Gori​ - Pedro Antonio Honrubia - Daniel Gago - Estefanía Torres Martínez - Antonia Jover Díaz - Lidia Rubio Sánchez - Diego de las Barreras del Valle - Tamara Defa - Jacinto Moreno González - José Santana - María Márquez Guerrero - Mª Luisa Saavedra - Lucía Muñoz Dalda - Jorge Uxó - Julián Benito Macías Tovar - María Graciano - Ignacio Ramos Delgado - Rocío Ester Val - Mercedes Pérez Merino - José Ismael Criado Aguilera - Rosa Medel Pérez - Álvaro Sánchez - Mercedes González Rebullón - Javier Cañadas Martín - Verónica Hermida Longa - Carmen Fajardo - Vaselina Kostadinova - Ander Jiménez - Mario Valde Fernández - Nora Isabel Espina - Jaime Durán - Alejandro Aguilar - Raquel Martínez Aguilera - Jorge Caldera Serrano - Miguel Ongil López - Carlos Gi

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Blind Girl Here. Give Me Your Best Blind Jokes!

Do your worst!

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This subreddit is 10 years old now.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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Storage and Utilization of Glycogen by Mouse Liver during Adaptation to Nutritional Changes Are GLP-1 and PASK Dependent. (Pub Date: 2021-07-26)

https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13082552

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34444712

Abstract

Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) and PAS kinase (PASK) control glucose and energy homeostasis according to nutritional status. Thus, both glucose availability and GLP-1 lead to hepatic glycogen synthesis or degradation. We used a murine model to discover whether PASK mediates the effect of exendin-4 (GLP-1 analogue) in the adaptation of hepatic glycogen metabolism to nutritional status. The results indicate that both exendin-4 and fasting block thePask expression, and PASK deficiency disrupts the physiological levels of blood GLP1 and the expression of hepatic GLP1 receptors after fasting. Under a non-fasted state, exendin-4 treatment blocks AKT activation, whereby Glucokinase and Sterol Regulatory Element-Binding Protein-1c*(Srebp1c)* expressions were inhibited. Furthermore, the expression of certain lipogenic genes was impaired, while increasing Glucose Transporter 2 (GLUT2) and Glycogen Synthase (GYS). Moreover, exendin-4 treatment under fasted conditions avoided Glucose 6-Phosphatase*(G6pase)* expression, while maintaining high GYS and its activation state. These results lead to an abnormal glycogen accumulation in the liver under fasting, both in PASK-deficient mice and in exendin-4 treated wild-type mice. In short, exendin-4 and PASK both regulate glucose transport and glycogen storage, and some of the exendin-4 effects could therefore be due to the blocking of thePask expression.

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Open Access: True

Authors: Ana Pérez-García - Verónica Hurtado-Carneiro - Carmen Herrero-De-Dios - Pilar Dongil - José Enrique García-Mauriño - María Dolores Sánchez - Carmen Sanz - Elvira Álvarez -

Additional links:

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/8/2552/pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8399311

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Dropped my best ever dad joke & no one was around to hear it

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

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Las Chicas Del Cable S01, E01 Transcript

I just started watching Las Chicas Del Cable! To help myself learn what is being said and to easily look up words I don´t know, I´ve transcribed the Spanish subtitles. Here they are to help anyone else!

The formating didn´t transfer from the word document.

S1E1 Temporada 1 Episodio 1
[Alba] En mil novecientos veintiocho (1928), las mujeres éramos algo así como adornos que se llevaban a las fiestas para presumir de ellos. Objetos sin poder de opinión ni decisión. Es cierto que la vida no era fácil para nadie, pero mucho menos si eras mujer. Si eras mujer, en mil novecientos veintiocho (1928) ser libre era algo que parecía inalcanzable. Porque para la sociedad las mujeres solo éramos amas de casa, madres, esposas... No teníamos derecho a tener sueños ni ambiciones. Para buscar un futuro muchas tenían que marcharse lejos.
[Mujer] En el bar de enfrente. [Hombre] Tú no vas a ir a ningún sitio.
[Alba] Y otras tenían que enfrentarse a las normas de una sociedad machista y retrógrada.
[Otro mujer] Déjala. [Hombre] Tú no te metas. ¡No te metas!
[Alba] Al final, todas, ricas, pobres, queríamos lo mismo, ser libres. Y si para eso había que quebrantar la ley, estábamos dispuestas a hacerlo sin importarnos las consecuencias. Solo las que luchan por ellos consiguen sus sueños. Eso creíamos. Lo que no sabíamos era que el destino nos tenía preparadas muchas sorpresas.
[Alba] Vámonos. Rápido. Argentina nos espera. ¡Corre! [Gimena] Nunca has montado en barco. [Pedro] Así que pensabais excaparos. ¡Ni se te ocurra moverte! Esto es entre Gimena y yo. [A] Mi amiga no quiere volver a verte. [P] Que me lo diga ella. Como grites, te juro que te mato. [G] Tranquilízate, por favor. [P] Lo haré cuando le digas a tu amiga que te vienes conmigo. [A] No se va a ir contigo. [P] Va a hacer lo que yo diga. Si no, primero la mato a ella y luego a ti. [G] Está bien, haré lo que quieras, pero baja el arma. ¿Sí? [Alba grita con rabia] [dos disparos] ¡Ah! [respiración jadeante] [respira agitada]
[A] Gimena...Gimena, no, por favor. [G] Mírame. Tú no tenías que estar aquí. [A] No debería haberte traído. Lo siento, lo siento. [G] Era nuestro sueño. [A] Es, es nuestro sueño. Lo sigue siendo. [G] Mujeres libres... [A] Sí, sí. [Alba llora] [truenos]
[Beltrán] Así que estabas en la calle con dos cadáveres, pero no tienes nada que ver. ¿Y por qué debería creerte? [Alba] Porque digo la verda

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What starts with a W and ends with a T

It really does, I swear!

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What is a a bisexual person doing when they’re not dating anybody?

They’re on standbi

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Geddit? No? Only me?
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📅︎ Dec 28 2021
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I wanna hear your best airplane puns.

Pilot on me!!

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E or ß?
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👤︎ u/Amazekam
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What did Spartacus say when the lion ate his wife?

Nothing, he was gladiator.

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Pun intended.
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No spoilers
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👤︎ u/Onfour
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Covid problems
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These aren't dad jokes...

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

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I had a vasectomy because I didn’t want any kids.

When I got home, they were still there.

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👤︎ u/demotrek
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What did 0 say to 8 ?

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

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Spi__
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I dislike karma whores who make posts that imply it's their cake day, simply for upvotes.

I won't be doing that today!

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👤︎ u/djcarves
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The Ancient Romans II
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I'd like to dedicate this joke to my wisdom teeth.

[Removed]

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How do you stop Canadian bacon from curling in your frying pan?

You take away their little brooms

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I did it, I finally did it. After 4 years and 92 days I went from being a father, to a dad.

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

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Where do you find a cow with no legs?

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

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It this sub dead?

There hasn't been a post all year!

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School Was Clothed
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Naan-negotiable
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Remember that joke I told you about the chiropractor?

It was about a weak back.

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👤︎ u/tanglwyst
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Letting loose with these puns
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Couch potato
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All dad jokes are bad and here’s why

Why

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Baka!
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👤︎ u/ridi86
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concrete 🗿
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Spanish Reading From B2 to C1+ via 50 Books over 7 Months

Main takeaway: Want to know how much reading it takes to go from fighting through a Spanish novel to reading both fluently and accurately? It took me about 10 books before I was reading quickly and reasonably accurately for adult contemporary fiction. But truthfully, it’s taken me the 50+ books to really gain accuracy for Literature (and it will probably take 50 more before I get down to one new word/chapter, let’s say). There are a lot of words to cover.

What I Did: I previously did a seven-month listening phase which brought my listening from B1 to a solid C1. The spillover for reading took me from a B2 to a B2+, I would say. I decided that my next phase would be reading, so that is what I did.

I read 50 “books that counted,” which basically meant "not kids’ books." (I also read plenty of kids’ books, however.) For my listening phase, I was able to track my hours because Netflix did it for me, basically. Over seven months, they worked out to around 2-3 hours/day of exposure. But what it meant in practice was 1-3 hours during 3-4 days and then really focusing on the weekends. I take the time to say all of this because although I did not track my hours for reading, I kept essentially the same schedule. I also took a month off to learn some Latin. (Highly recommended.)

How I Did It: Again, nothing too extreme. I started with “Los ríos profundos” by José María Arguedas and was shocked by how slowly I was reading. There were also a fair number of new words--by “fair,” I mean a lot, actually. It took me maybe a month(!) to get through 100 pages. I think I should mention that it was a paperback, so lookups necessitated getting to the end of a section and then looking up the terms. I should also mention that “Los ríos profundos” is deadly boring. Oh, yes. I never finished it. I got up to chapter 7 and said, “Okay, I need something easier. Also, a book where something happens.”

That was the wisest thing I did.

I fought my way through half of a children’s novel (La niña que tenía el mar adentro) before stumbling upon the Mexican graded readers. My salvation. I started from grade 1, Generation 1960, and read and looked up every unknown word (that wasn’t defined for me by the reader itself) up through 4th grade. (I read about half of the 5th grade book.) When I returned to the children’s novel, it was laughably easy. And I was off to the races.

The books are roughly in chronological order (except for the children’s books). It’s perhaps hard to s

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