I """completed""" the duolingo spanish tree like a year ago, meaning I took the placement test and basically passed the whole thing so I only had to do like the last five subjects. Nevertheless, I can't understand spanish worth shit and it is my understanding that grinding on online courses and reference books is worthless after a very early point, and I want to read don quijote in it's native language, so I need to build up to that. Can /lit/ rec me some good beginner, and I mean beginner spanish literature?
Read Aesop's Fables in Spanish, or El principito (look it up like that).
Completing the Duolingo tree just means you tried enough times to make it gold. It's like a video game; it takes no skill to reach the end if you're given infinite chances to get there. The tree isn't a "placement test," it's just a "fun" way to learn very, very basic shit.
Reading even "beginner spanish [sic] literature" will only frustrate you when you're looking up every other word. You need to engage in serious study before you can play.
Also,
>it's native language
You can't even English.
Fair warning that Don Quixote is difficult even for native speakers, so I would unironically recommend classical literature translated into Spanish that you've already read.
That said, read some easier works by Marquez like The General in His Labyrinth in Spanish beforehand, I would also recommend The Shadow of the Wind by Zafón, and Pedro Páramo which is pretty pop on /lit/
>>8929732
Cortazar has simple prose and very short short stories.
Suerte, amigo
>>8929831
fuck off lad with your cherry picking. Its late at night and I didn't pay attention in elementary school english. As long as I read understand the damn books it doesn't matter if I put an apostrophe in the wrong place every once and a while.
>>8929870
Nitpicking. Cherry picking is something else, maricón.