https://stafura.dev/tags/comprehensible-input/ Recent content in Comprehensible-Input on Matus Stafura Hugo en-US Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:34:33 +0200 https://stafura.dev/krashen-i-plus-1-difficulty-scale-comprehensible-input/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:34:33 +0200 https://stafura.dev/krashen-i-plus-1-difficulty-scale-comprehensible-input/ <h2 id="the-problem-with-graded-reading">The problem with graded reading</h2> <p>I&rsquo;ve spent months trying to find interesting reading material that is just above my level of competence, but it is very hard to find. I have tried reading news, but those are full of metaphors or very advanced grammar and vocab and graded readers are often boring and not interesting enough to read regularly. Learning anything hard comes with this same friction — I wrote about <a href="https://stafura.dev/the-one-magic-word-that-helps-you-learn-anything-especially-the-hard-stuff">the one word that helps you push through it</a> a while back, and it applies just as much to language reading as it does to everything else.</p>