I found Danielle Steel books translated to Spanish to be great as a first introduction when I was learning Spanish... Disclaimer: I've got zero interest in roma

I found Danielle Steel books translated to Spanish to be great as a first introduction when I was learning Spanish... Disclaimer: I've got zero interest in romance stories or her writing. Her books had more natural words and it really didn't matter if you misunderstood a few words or a sentence. Plus because they had been simply translated from English you kind of picked up on grammar that made sense (you could squint and kinda knew the English behind it). Great literature was the worst to try and read and learn from. I wouldn't try reading anything highly regarded as good literature. Just too hard. Long books are a grind - I would probably avoid Harry Potter for that reason. Comics were really hard - too many contractions and fake accents; also local comics often implicitly referred to local culture I didn't know.