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coldpieyesterday at 1:22 PM0 repliesview on HN

I'm at a similar level, maybe a little behind that. I don't have any advice for you, but I'll relate the path I am planning to take. Would be happy to hear others' thoughts, too.

My feeling is this level is just too early to read "real" texts, so I am continuing to just use graded readers. I use the Du Chinese app for this, it contains a bunch of short stories at different comprehension levels, and has a spoken accompaniment to each story read by a real speaker (not AI/TTS). I also have some physical books from LingLing Mandarin, I like the challenge of not having a dictionary immediately to hand like I do in the app. My hope is by the time I finish with the Advanced stages of each of these sets of readers, I will be able to start reading "real" texts and fill in gaps with a dictionary app, at which point there is an infinite supply of material.

I do worry I'll end up at the "10% missing comprehension" described in the article, though, at which point I guess I'll try to find even higher level graded readers, if they exist. We'll see.