Ah page 12 is pretty bad, try with 28 it's a lot more intelligible. Yes, while I found El Quijote sounding obnoxious I could understand most of it when I tried

Ah page 12 is pretty bad, try with 28 it's a lot more intelligible. Yes, while I found El Quijote sounding obnoxious I could understand most of it when I tried reading it. Definitely way too slow so only went a couple of pages in, but agreed I was happy to be able to read it. I wonder whether having literature at this age, and a language that is mostly spoken as it is read, and a pretty unified country contributed to the stability of the Spanish language/pronunciation.