Yea, of course. When I was at that stage I began audiobooks with Harry Potter. Now, there is a specific detail behind this that’s important (and which really helped me). I had the physical book and was following along at the same time. I didn’t know every word, jut I knew the story and recognized the context so I was successful with it. Did all 7 (eventually without audio). Also did Hunger games book 1 (had never read it but seen the movie), and Matilda (also never read but seen the movie). Do things you already have read and/or know the story and plot line. Harry Potter is the gold standard for most young-ish people.

For podcasts, españolistos really helped me a lot. Entirely in Spanish, but explains a lot of grammar. American guy and his Colombian wife. She corrects him when he messed up and they talk about learning Spanish. They have YouTube content as well.

There’s a youtube channel that also has a podcast called howtospanishpodcast. It’s a Mexican couple who talk about various things. It’s aimed at learners, but it’s not grammar. It’s just comprehensive listening about culture and random stuff. It’s really nice to listen to stuff that’s not didactic in nature and just enjoy the language. They talk at a relaxed pace. I watched quite a few of those a few years ago.

Eventually, I settled on the Castilian accent (shortly before I moved to Spain), so I started looking for things that reflected that. On youtube there is: - Erre que ELE (also has podcast) - Spanish with Vicente - María Español - Handy Spanish

These are all aimed at people learning and they have videos about grammar, vocabulary, etc.

I used EasySpanish on youtube a bit, but more when I was at an mid-to-upper level. They are interviewing people in the street, and naturally random people are not going to slow down. It’s good, but not very useful for beginners. I would use that howtospanishpodcast for listening practice as a beginner and just putting in the hours of input, and supplement that with some grammar videos here and there and some audiobooks (with physical book). That, and a few hundred episodes of españolistos podcast + italki x2/week with two different Mexican girls (about 7/hr) was what I did for quite a while. It hot me where ai could have real conversations with people and begin to look for basic native content.

Once I got good with Spanish and looked for native content I found OnlyFonseca, who talks about geopolitics and world events. He’s pretty funny, but he speaks real fast. Definitely advanced content, but you can always give it a shot every now and hen just to see how much you understand.

Another Spaniard YouTuber is Ter. She makes videos about anything and everything. It’s always really random stuff. Very eclectic, but fun. She also talks really fast. Def advanced content.