Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Spanish the fun way! (Foreign Language Graded Reader Series nº 1) (Spanish Edition)

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Authentic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability Spanish Short Stories For Beginners” is a book written by language educator and author Olly Richards. The book contains a collection of ten short stories designed specifically for beginners learning Spanish. Each story is written in a simple language that is easy to understand and includes vocabulary and grammar appropriate for beginners. Conversations in Simple English: Short Natural Dialogues to Boost Your Confidence & Improve Your Spoken English The way to break through this plateau and become a confident and advanced Spanish speaker is to spend lots of time reading and listening to Spanish at your level. And so that's what this podcast provides! Conversations in Intermediate French: Short Natural Dialogues to Boost Your Confidence & Improve Your Spoken French

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Conversations in Mexican Spanish: Short Natural Dialogues to Learn the Slang, Soul, & Style of Mexican Spanish Conversations in Intermediate Spanish: Short Natural Dialogues to Boost Your Confidence & Improve Your Spoken Spanish The only small issue is that there were a handful of typos/errors. For example, in one scene of a story, a character called Elvira is referred to as Sofia by another character, but such errors are rare and don't impact on being able to understand and enjoy the stories. This book is fantastic. An excellent aid to learning a language. The glossary at the end of each section of the story, as well as the summary and questions for comprehension, make for a book and language learning tool that leaves others in the dust.Olly has a degree in Arabic and French from the University of Cambridge and has studied several languages including Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. He has spent significant time living and studying abroad in countries such as Egypt, Brazil, and Spain, which has given him a unique perspective on language learning and teaching. I understand that to make short stories for beginner you can't make them super complicated/intriguing with nuances and so on. However, I wish the author trusted in the capabilities of the readers a little bit more, not language wise but their ability to put together the story in their head, and maybe spent a little more time developing the characters as well as making the stories more complex as you got further in the book. Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn German the fun way!

Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners by Olly Richards

This book is intended to be part of an Extensive Reading program to learn a language. It's goal is to provide Comprehensible Input for the beginner. I capitalized those words so you can do a search and learn about them yourself if they are unfamiliar to you. There's lots of info on the internet and youtube about them. There's also a very informative and helpful introduction and quite a bit of info in the front of this book on how to use it best. Each story has a controlled vocabulary and will introduce the reader to about 1000 of the most common words used in that language. The podcast is aimed at a low intermediate level (A2-B1 on the Common European Framework [CEFR]). So, this podcast is not for complete beginners. Italian Short Stories For Intermediate Learners: 8 Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Italian the Fun Way!Everything is very simplified so the stories rely a lot on stereotypes of personalities (this is especially true of El caballero, La capsula and Tierras desconocidas). So a lot of the characters don't have very interesting personalities and the motivations are quite cliché for some things. But that's to be expected and necessary when the language itself has to be simplified. The Spanish speaking world is full of so many different accents, but whatever kind of Spanish you're learning – whether you plan to move to Mexico or to Argentina or to Columbia– it doesn't matter. 99% of all Spanish is the same! Stories are broken down into manageable chapters, so you make progress with the story and feel a sense of achievement. Realistic amounts of new vocabulary are introduced so that you’re not deterred by complex words. Instead of pausing to look up every word, you’ll absorb new vocabulary from the context of the story, and have the satisfaction of that moment when you say: “I totally understood that sentence!”