Some years ago I learned some Italian by studying on one's own. Than I found the Adesso magazin very helpful.
Some years later, when I learned the basics of Dutch, I was really missing a similar source.
Edit:
The concept of Spotlight Verlag is to present authentic texts in foreign langauge with supplying translations of some of the difficult words. Most of the text are rather actual and they try to select words which occur in different articles to teach them in different context.
In earlier times there were Compact Cassettes with reading some of the articles. Later these where replaced by DVDs.
Some articles about grammar.
In short it is a rather living presentation and I enjoyed it.
Spotlight is the brand of the magazines teaching English.
The other magzines for German are Écoute (french), ECOS (spanisch) and ADESSO (Italian).
