Originally Posted by catmcclure

When I was taking Spanish I'd read Spanish newspapers online. If I were you I'd find some Japanese or Spanish quilt blogs/site and read away. The newspapers are also online. I read the Japanese paper (translated) almost every day. If you need help, you can print an article in Spanish and then have Google translate it and print it out in English. The same translation in Japanese would probably read like Yoda-speak in English, but it would let you know whether you were translating it fairly accurately - thankfully the Mainichi Daily News does have an English edition online.