It’s a common fact that many people who learn a language through reading still struggle with listening comprehension—and, in effect, pronunciation as well—even though they can read hundreds of difficult novels with no issues.
It’ll take you longer to learn with this method, but if you really want to come as close as you can to a native speaker, try to read as little as possible until you’re at least “semi-fluent”. Learning how to read when you’re already fluent is incredibly easy. Doing the opposite, not so much.
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As someone who only cares about reading I wish I had this problem
In case you haven’t noticed, people don’t tend to get far on audio courses alone. Many of the people who legitimately get far in a relatively short amount of time tend to cite a fuckton of input both by reading and listening.
A better piece of advice would be to actually devote time to listening and speaking and not pour it all on **reading** expecting your listening and speaking to improve just as fast even though you’ve ignored them. You improve at what you practice and stay stagnant or regress when it comes to skills you neglect.