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It is often more productive to jump in at the deep end with language learning and read and listen to articles and conversations by fluent speakers as much as possible. Reading in particular is especially valuable and helps you to learn masses of words indirectly without having to consciously remember them. The video channels on Youtube have been selected because they have subtitle options which greatly aid the learning process. The suggestion is to auto translate videos as you're watching them into English, slow down to 50-75% pace and click the bottom right column for a transcript in the target language so you can view both languages as the people speak. Translations are not always perfect, but it is a great way to listen and try to understand what is being said.

Spanish

Video

Without subtitles (having reached a level where I can now hear most of the words)

Newspapers

Other

Word lists

French

Video

Newspapers

Word lists

Top 10,000 words
Top French words from subtitles based on www.opensubtitles.org

Italian

Videos

Newspapers

Word lists

Portuguese

Videos

Newspapers

Word lists

German

Videos

Newspapers

Word lists

Dutch

Videos

Newspapers

Word lists

Danish

Videos

Newspapers

Word lists

Swedish

Videos

Newspapers

Word lists

Norwegian


Videos

Newspapers

Word lists

Polish

Videos

Newspapers

Word lists

Czech

Video

Czech Step by Step - spoken Czech with text

Russian

Videos

Word lists

Catalan

Videos

Also

Language Learning Centre
Useful lists
Multi-lingual dictionary