What to read & listen to
The eternal question — “what should I immerse with?” — answered with ladders, not lists. Start where you understand something, climb when it gets comfortable.
- The listening ladder — learner podcasts → folk tales → dubs → native YouTube → everything
- The reading ladder — graded texts → children’s books → news → novels → literature
Both ladders share one rule: compelling beats optimal. The theoretically perfect input you avoid loses to the imperfect input you binge.