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Natively | Find native books, movies and tv shows at your level (learnnatively.com)
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I was just learning about the concept of extensive reading a little while back, and came across this cool website that let's you find media and rank it by difficulty level.

It only supports Japanese, Spanish, German, and Korean for now, and most of the focus seems to be on the former. Still, it seems like a great resource. And it's very easy/fun to jump in and contribute.

I've seen a similar site at https://languageroadmap.com/. It supports way more languages and has lots of media catalogged, but most seem to have no info. As far as I can tell it's kinda dead... but also seems like it'd be really cool if not for that.

To bring it back to discussion - what are some (recent or favorite) books you've read, or shows/movies you've watched in your target language? What are some that you found especially good for learners? And how do you find new material at your level?

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[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That is a good site idea, thanks for sharing. One of the main time wasting problem I had was finding books at an appropriate level (readability) to read. Their book collection on Languageroadmap is small for french but there are some books there that matches my reading list too, good to see that.

Currently I am doing something similar inside Calibre using a plugin called Count Pages, it support adding readability score to each book and sort them accordingly. It can also display and sort by the number of words in a book.

The readability score is probably not accurate since it is probably designed for english books but I find it mostly accurate so far when I try to read the books to confirm the difficulty. I think some of the scores takes into account sentence length as well so maybe that's why it still works for language like french. Usually easy books use mostly short sentences.