Whenever there is a question like "Can I watch this TV show if I'm only A2"? or "Can Harry Potter be effective if I just started the language?" most answers will be like "it's not effective, find something made for beginners/watch Peppa Pig", etc.
I've been learning Turkish (TL) for 3.5 months, and I'm watching and reading native content all the time, with a lot of success.
Yes, the input has to be comprehensible, but finding Dreaming Spanish-style material and graded readers isn't the only way. You can make any material comprehensible. You can read the Wikipedia article on the subject first to learn vocabulary, you can use Google Translate, you can focus on one favorite topic for a long time, so it's easier to predict what the narrator will say, etc.
Yes, it involves a lot of lookup, and that's not for everybody. But a lot of people would rather look up a lot of words than watch Peppa Pig for hours a day.
Would watching Peppa Pig be more efficient? I would probably be able to go through more material faster, but I wouldn't have the patience to engage with the language 3-4 hours a day as I do now, so the easier comprehension would give me diminishing returns.
At this rate, I'm likely to achieve B1 within a couple of months. So, it's not painfully slow and inefficient.
Others might find that having to look up a lot of words is so discouraging that they would rather watch Peppa Pig.
And that's fine! But stop giving this kind of advice, like it's the only way to learn the language.
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