Spanish Novels: El Hacker

Spanish Novels for Pre Intermediates - A2 #10

by Paco Ardit

I know how tough it is to find good readings to learn a new language.
You don't usually have a large vocabulary or are able to read long and complex sentences.
You'd like to go right to the fun stuff, but maybe it's too hard for you now.
A typical Spanish reader isn't interesting or just plain boring.


Learning with is easy and straightforward. Forget about difficult long texts with English-translations. This book for Spanish learners is not like that. It will take you to the next level in less time. That means less effort and struggling towards your way to fluency in Spanish. Improving your Spanish can be lots of fun.

is the tenth book of the Spanish Novels Series. This Pre Intermediate Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has a basic command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. I assume you know your pronouns, articles, and the most used verbs/nouns in Spanish. You also need to know simple present, past and future tenses.

Leo is the best hacker in Argentina. He loves technology and works in IT Security for a big company. Everything goes fine until he hears about a crime. A young girl was killed in her own apartment. There is not a single clue, but there is a laptop and a smartphone. The police calls Leo to analyze the devices and help them resolve the crime.

This Spanish Book for Pre Intermediates will show you the most used grammar structures in different situations. As the difficulty level is just right you will learn and enjoy it at the same time. There's no doubt about An Intermediate Spanish book is the perfect place to keep improving the language.

Sample

Genres: Spanish Literature, Fiction

93 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 18, 2015

About the author

Paco Ardit is the author of the Spanish Novels Series. He was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1976. Since the early 1980’s he lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He loves learning and teaching languages, reading books, and writing fiction. His mission is to create the best materials for language learners who don't want to settle for easy and boring.

Combining his experience in learning, languages and fiction writing he comes up with fun and engaging graded readers in multiple genres: Mystery, Detective Stories, Romance, Comedy, Drama, and more.

Reviews

[Dave Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this would be a good book to test my comprehension of Spanish. While I would like to think of my Spanish language skills as A2 (according to this scale). Honestly, I'm probably more of an advanced A1. Still, this was at a good reading level for me. Maybe I am an A2 after all.

This is sort of a Spanish version of "Dick and Jane" for grown ups. I thought it would be a good fit for me since I'm a computer techie and I want to expand my Spanish vocabulary to include computery words. In that sense, this was a good choice. There were very few instances in which the built-in Kindle Spanish dictionary didn't work. That's where Bing's translator had to rescue me.

The story did move my Spanish abilities a little further down the road. It was interesting enough although you don't pick up one of these books because of the plot.

Full disclosure: In addition to sharpening my Spanish, I chose this book because it was short and I am trying to increase the number of books I read during 2019. I know this is cheating but I don't care. Goodreads should allow us to set and annual limit based on the number of pages rather than the number of books. Those of us who read long books are at a disadvantage here at Goodreads.

I'd give this about 3.5/5 stars. Bastante bueno pero no es genial.

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tedious at first, perhaps, but still a bit fun toward the end. But even with the tediousness at first, this book was perfectly aimed for my reading level. I could read the whole thing with no help at all, but if I wanted to understand everything exactly, I needed to look up a few words and some grammar. I was glad to see in action the vocabulary related to computers and social media and hacking. It was helpful to see the English and Spanish words intermingle when talking about something that is rather dominated by English. I learned some Spanish, and that's a good thing.

[Tea73 · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was way better than the A1 bundle of Paco Ardit stories I read a while back. He's still a terribly pedestrian writer, but there was a bit of a plot we got endless background on our hero (who is a white hat hacker.) I don't really care about learning computer vocabulary in Spanish, but it's a good introduction for someone who is. I found it pretty easy to read even without ever looking up words (which seems to be cumbersome in Hoopla.)

[David Vonka · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book to practice one's basic Spanish. The story is not complicated, but reasonably fun to read and the vocabulary and grammar is well chosen.

[reece · Rating 3 out of 5]

decided to come back to this book because i'm on a mission to improve my reading in spanish and eh it was alright. these books are boring but it's what i gotta read for now.

[Alex Gibson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me gustó mucho este libro, Leo es un hacker bueno (O hacker blanco) que vive en la ciudad de Buenos Aires (Mi ciudad favorita en sudamerica).

La historia fue muy interesante y me gustó aprender parabras nuevos como:

pistas - clues
dispositivios - devices
contraseñas - passwords
crimen / delito - crime
descifrar - decipher
claves - keys
borrar - to delete

[Laura May · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot harder than 'Laura no está', but still just barely doable. I'm definitely going to read the others at this level before moving on, as I hit a lot of unknown verbs and tenses.