I’ve decided that in my quest to reach the level of reading I did when I was in high school, I’d attack a Spanish blog.
The one I found is Libro de notas. From what I can tell it covers a variety of topics– yes, very vague description, but that goes to show how much my Spanish has dwindled 
. Hopefully, with time and practice I’ll be able to read it like the other blogs I have in my Google Reader AND be able to tell you what the posts are about (at the moment I can only read fragments and get the gist of the post).
I am also using LingQ to practice my reading and translating skills. This way I will be able to pick up new vocabulary. I am new to LingQ but it works perfectly for languages in which I have a basic understanding (namely French and Spanish), I looked at the Swedish section and realized one of the downsides to LingQ is that it works at best when you do have that basic understanding. I have zero knowledge of Swedish and even though the article I was looking at dealt with basics such as greetings, the pronunciation, grammar, and words were just beyond my brain.
The same is happening a bit with Japanese, and so I’ve made some accommodations. I just use LingQ for translating articles into hiragana (from romanji) until I get some grammar under my belt. Then I will be able to use LingQ for Japanese as thoroughly as I do Spanish.
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