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Reddit mentions of Graded German Reader: Erste Stufe (World Languages)
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You mentioned below that you were interested in German... check out this book if you're a beginner and like reading. I don't know how the managed it, but it's a 240 page small print book that you can literally pick up and read through starting on your first day of German. It starts with about 500 english to German cognates, adding new words slowly (with definitions at the bottom of the page to help) until you're eventually reading pretty comfortably at maybe a low B1 level or something. Won't get you all the way there, but it was pretty well handled I thought, pity all graded readers aren't like this.
I liked "Graded German Reader: Erste Stufe"(for example, here - but, buy it used. It's out of print, so the new versions are super expensive).
I also like "German Easy Reader" (can be found here). I found the stories in here less varied and interesting than in the Graded Reader, but they have a lot of repetition. You'll find certain phrases repeated a lot, and this actually helped me pick up which case follows certain prepositions in what scenarios. The author also has a pre-intermediate, and I think 3 intermediate readers to follow up on this. They're all pretty cheap too.
I am in the exact same boat. Except I still live in the states.
Here are some things my german gf and I have been working on:
Hope that helps and that I didn't write too much... Good luck!
Yes! As for books these one's have really helped me:
I know I have more but these are my favorites! As for movies/shows.. when I watch like youtube videos (try 'easy german') or kids shows I tend to watch them without subtitles. If I'm watching an adult movie/show I pretty much have to use subtitles otherwise I can't pick up anything. I usually put the subtitles in German though, because I read better than I listen!
Let me know if I can help you with anything else :)
In addition, there's the much more recent Graded German Reader: Erste Stufe. Out of print but still in copyright, but there's a PDF floating around.
Studien und Plaudereien is very cute but obviously pretty outdated / old fashioned.