The Best Books to Learn ANY Language FAST

👉 Grab your FREE Guide, How to Read in Any Language: https://l.storylearning.com/reading_g... 👉 Sign up now for the StoryLearning App: https://l.storylearning.com/SL_app I’ve had a lot of questions come in  about different ways to learn vocabulary from reading and the best books to use if you want to read to learn a language.  I do quite a lot of episodes on reading and this is going to be a rapid fire one. I'm going to very quickly go through a bunch of different types of books that you can read and tell you if they're helpful or not. Mentioned in this episode: 📖 My 101 Conversations books: https://l.storylearning.com/books 🎓 Sangers, N.L., van der Sande, L., Welie, C. et al. Learning a Language Through Reading: A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Effects of Extensive Reading on Second and Foreign Language Learning. Educ Psychol Rev 37, 96 (2025). https://link.springer.com/article/10.... 👉 Got a question you want Olly to answer on the podcast? Submit it here: https://storylearning.com/ask_Olly_yo... 👉 Get a 7-day FREE trial to one of my story-based language courses: https://storylearning.com/Language_Co... 👉 Check out my all-inclusive VIP language programme with guaranteed results: https://storylearning.com/StoryLearni... 00:00 The reading trap 00:15 Which books should you read (or not)? 01:22 Free guide to my six-step reading method 01:48 What the research says about reading 03:15 Book type 1 03:38 Book type 2 04:26 Book type 3 04:59 Book type 4 05:36 Book type 5 06:10 Book type 6 07:38 Book type 7 08:09 Book type 8 09:42 Wrap up and free resource #storylearning #learnthroughstories