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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And the words I do know come to me much more quickly - I no longer have a lag like I often did when I started this. Twenty years later, Olly has studied languages from around the world and is considered an expert in the field. Some of the stories—-well, maybe most of them—-are strange, but they might appeal more to a teenager. You’ll finally be able to enjoy reading in Spanish, grow your vocabulary in a natural way, and improve your comprehension at the same time.

Short Stories in Korean for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment. Real German people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! My hope then is to take a stab at—if not Cien años de soledad or Don Quixote—at least an appropriate real work of Spanish literature or nonfiction.Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories will entertain you, while at the same time allowing you to benefit from an improved range of vocabulary and a better grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories include key features that will support and consolidate your progress, including A glossary for bolded words in each text A bilingual word list Full plot summary Comprehension questions after each chapter. I also recommend watching Richards’s YouTube videos on storylearning, so that you can make the most of his books. Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from a low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly – enjoyment! When the old brother falls asleep on the bus and ends up at the end of the bus line he's in a town that is an hour away from downtown Barcelona, but instead of figuring out how to get back, he decides to stay in a hotel for the night and doesn't figure out how to get in touch with his sister.

Looking for world-class training material to help you make a breakthrough in your language learning?I was looking for a more casual reading experience that didn't necessarily feel like I was supposed to be learning as I read. To be frank I still used translator to translate some words even though the majority of these words I learned before but still not everything you can remember until you practice it in a daily base.

Stories are broken down into manageable chapters, so you make progress with the story and feel a sense of achievement. Honestly, I’m not sure if I just lack basic reading comprehension, but this passage confused me immensely. It will be too slow for advanced or native speakers, but for intermediates it is excellent listening practice. Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making the process fun while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary. The stories are fun - the précis at the end of each chapter and the comprehension questions also useful.

Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Modern Standard Arabic the fun way!

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. You'll enjoy reading in Spanish, grow your vocabulary in a natural way, and improve your comprehension at the same time. I found it necessary to study the corresponding text in printed form for some time before listening to the audio. But this is counting all of the English words that are in the introduction and conclusion, where Olly includes some extra information about the stories.

At the beginning of the book there's a strong emphasis on how reading and finishing each story is more important than understanding every word and to not stop to look up words, I found this really helpful and encouraging because I definitely am the kind of person who would have made the mistake of looking up what I didn't understand and getting frustrated and I'm really pleased that this method of powering through helps and that I understood a lot more than I expected to.