Comic books is what really worked for me. I'm lucky that I was learning Dutch and the Belgians are great at comic writing. When you don't quite have the vocabul

Comic books is what really worked for me. I'm lucky that I was learning Dutch and the Belgians are great at comic writing. When you don't quite have the vocabulary you can use the pictures for enough context clues to decipher it. When I started it took me a week to read one story. Got that down to an evening, then one hour. Now I can read them as quickly as English unless there's something very unusual happening.