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)

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Moreover, while most of the punctuation is correct, there are instances where there’s only one mark at the end of a sentence, which feels somewhat unprofessional.

If you’re learning Spanish and enjoy reading, this is the book you need to rekindle your passion for the language and take your Spanish to the next level! Olly’s top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively.From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners will make learning Spanish easy and enjoyable.

Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers You may also be interested in.Controlled language at your level, including the 1,000 most frequent words, to help you progress confidently. Has verbal translations although oddly these are presented from track 14 onwards after you have listened to the whole thing in just Spanish. Yes they are easy to understand and practise your Spanish but god I found the stories hard to get through simply because for me they were awful and a little ridiculous in places.

Side note: This might just be a problem with my version, but I couldn’t help but feel that this book lacked some editing. I live in Barcelona - in one story a character ends up "stranded" in Badalona at 5pm and has to spend the night in a hotel. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Daniel takes a bus and falls asleep and awakes in Barcelona, and the rest of the story then doesn't make sense as the book version he awakes Valencia, which makes far more sense of saying that he is far away from Barcelona. Olly bridges the gap between theory and practice by helping you to use scientific principles to get real results with your language learning. I credit this book, alongside the audiobook, with getting me over that advanced-beginner hump when I was learning Spanish.