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Spanish Short Stories For Intermediate Learners: 8 Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way!
Grow your vocabulary, perfect your grammar, and ignite your imagination with these eight unconventional short stories for intermediate Spanish learners!
“What surprised me the most about these stories was [that] they’re genuinely really fun to read! I couldn’t put them down, and found myself dying to know the ending of each story!” - Hannah
In this book you will find:
Short stories from a variety of compelling genres, from science fiction to historical thriller, expertly designed to help you progress from intermediate to advanced Spanish
Intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you reading, while learning new vocabulary and improving your Spanish comprehension
Stories which are broken down into manageable chapters, so you can make progress without great difficulty reading
A wide variety of grammar structures used throughout the stories, so you can master complex Spanish tenses and verb forms in a natural way (instead of spending hours learning rules)
Word lists at the end of each chapter give definitions of harder vocabulary and idiomatic expressions, so you can keep reading without getting stuck
Natural dialogues throughout the stories, so you can learn real, spoken Spanish while you read
Regular plot summaries and comprehension questions make sure you understand every twist and turn of the plot. You can focus on the joy of reading in Spanish, rather than struggling through dense text with no support
An expert, five-step guide to reading Spanish effectively, so you can become a better learner, and use reading as a tool to become fluent
Spanish Short Stories for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students at intermediate level (B1-B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference). The stories are written in carefully graded Spanish that avoids much of the obscure vocabulary and ambiguous grammar that has frustrated you when you’ve tried to read Spanish in the past.
With this book, you’ll have a sense of achievement and feeling of progress when reading. 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.
Based on extensive research into how people most enjoy and benefit from reading in a new language, you’ll no longer suffer from these common difficulties associated with reading Spanish:
Dull topics that are no fun to read
Books so long you never reach the end
Endless chapters that make you want to give up
Impenetrable grammar that frustrates you at every turn
Complex vocabulary that leaves you with your head buried in the dictionary
Instead, you can just concentrate on what you came for in the first place - enjoying reading and having fun!
If you’ve been learning Spanish for a while, and are ready to take your skills to the next level, this is the book you need!
So what are you waiting for? Scroll up and grab your copy now!
“What surprised me the most about these stories was [that] they’re genuinely really fun to read! I couldn’t put them down, and found myself dying to know the ending of each story!” - Hannah
In this book you will find:
Short stories from a variety of compelling genres, from science fiction to historical thriller, expertly designed to help you progress from intermediate to advanced Spanish
Intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you reading, while learning new vocabulary and improving your Spanish comprehension
Stories which are broken down into manageable chapters, so you can make progress without great difficulty reading
A wide variety of grammar structures used throughout the stories, so you can master complex Spanish tenses and verb forms in a natural way (instead of spending hours learning rules)
Word lists at the end of each chapter give definitions of harder vocabulary and idiomatic expressions, so you can keep reading without getting stuck
Natural dialogues throughout the stories, so you can learn real, spoken Spanish while you read
Regular plot summaries and comprehension questions make sure you understand every twist and turn of the plot. You can focus on the joy of reading in Spanish, rather than struggling through dense text with no support
An expert, five-step guide to reading Spanish effectively, so you can become a better learner, and use reading as a tool to become fluent
Spanish Short Stories for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students at intermediate level (B1-B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference). The stories are written in carefully graded Spanish that avoids much of the obscure vocabulary and ambiguous grammar that has frustrated you when you’ve tried to read Spanish in the past.
With this book, you’ll have a sense of achievement and feeling of progress when reading. 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.
Based on extensive research into how people most enjoy and benefit from reading in a new language, you’ll no longer suffer from these common difficulties associated with reading Spanish:
Dull topics that are no fun to read
Books so long you never reach the end
Endless chapters that make you want to give up
Impenetrable grammar that frustrates you at every turn
Complex vocabulary that leaves you with your head buried in the dictionary
Instead, you can just concentrate on what you came for in the first place - enjoying reading and having fun!
If you’ve been learning Spanish for a while, and are ready to take your skills to the next level, this is the book you need!
So what are you waiting for? Scroll up and grab your copy now!
217 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 7, 2016
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December 18, 2018
This is not a collection of stories and excerpts from literature, but instead it has been expressly written with the intention of helping students strengthen their understanding and use of the more challenging aspects of Spanish grammar.
The book divides its stories into manageable and coherent parts of a few pages each, followed by a short glossary and some comprehension exercises. This is more natural and smoother than the one page text one page translation format some other books use. That makes it easier to enjoy the stories while learning from them
It adds new vocabulary for the reader, with useful notes on some more unusual words and phrases, but does not allow the vocab to overwhelm the reader. I found that I could understand each story well enough on a first reading without having to be familiar with every single word.
Noteworthy areas practised in the stories:
Direct and indirect object pronouns
Reflexive verbs
Past, future and conditional tenses
Compound tenses
Imperative and subjunctive moods
All forms of the 2nd person singular and plural (the stories often use vosotros forms for the familiar 2nd person plural, which is helpful as so many available modern text books seem to focus only on Latin American Spanish)
The book divides its stories into manageable and coherent parts of a few pages each, followed by a short glossary and some comprehension exercises. This is more natural and smoother than the one page text one page translation format some other books use. That makes it easier to enjoy the stories while learning from them
It adds new vocabulary for the reader, with useful notes on some more unusual words and phrases, but does not allow the vocab to overwhelm the reader. I found that I could understand each story well enough on a first reading without having to be familiar with every single word.
Noteworthy areas practised in the stories:
Direct and indirect object pronouns
Reflexive verbs
Past, future and conditional tenses
Compound tenses
Imperative and subjunctive moods
All forms of the 2nd person singular and plural (the stories often use vosotros forms for the familiar 2nd person plural, which is helpful as so many available modern text books seem to focus only on Latin American Spanish)
September 16, 2018
I'm an intermediate Spanish student, and my vocabulary could use some improvement. This is a great little book; it not only defines the "hard words" at the end of each story, there's also a short comprehension quiz. The stories themselves were better than expected. The one about the female who was spying against the Nazis was quite engaging.
September 2, 2018
Short and very interesting stories to keep the reader curious. After every chapter, new vocabulary and questions regarding the story. This was the first book I read in Spanish and I loved it.
March 20, 2018
Waiting for the next book!
I loved the variety of stories! Very fun to read and I even learned a few new words along the way. I'm hoping there are more intermediate or advanced stories by Olly coming out soon!
I loved the variety of stories! Very fun to read and I even learned a few new words along the way. I'm hoping there are more intermediate or advanced stories by Olly coming out soon!
January 5, 2019
The language was useful. The stories too simple
I did appreciate the work that went into writing these stories. I would have appreciated a bit more thought in the content of the stories.
I did appreciate the work that went into writing these stories. I would have appreciated a bit more thought in the content of the stories.
May 26, 2020
Excellent tool.
Excellent way to improve your intermediate Spanish, especially on a tablet w a Spanish-English dictionary downloaded. I would tap on a word I wasn’t sure of and just continue reading. By the end of the book, I was needing the dictionary’s help less and less.
Excellent way to improve your intermediate Spanish, especially on a tablet w a Spanish-English dictionary downloaded. I would tap on a word I wasn’t sure of and just continue reading. By the end of the book, I was needing the dictionary’s help less and less.
August 19, 2018
Interesting stories
The short stories were interesting enough to keep me reading. I forgot I was reading to learn the language and got sucked into the stories instead.
The short stories were interesting enough to keep me reading. I forgot I was reading to learn the language and got sucked into the stories instead.
January 16, 2021
Good stories, tailor made for the level.
June 30, 2021
very enjoyable read. help expand my vocabulary by a lot
May 31, 2022
My favorite
August 18, 2023
Very good to improve vocabulary but the sentences and the writing style is “very” easy.
December 17, 2023
A very good mix of Spanish verbs (present, past, conditional with a bit of subjunctive) and extensive vocab. The stories were very unique! In a nutshell, perfect for students moving from A2 to B1. A whole lot of learning with a dash of fun!
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November 1, 2018Stories were fun yet because I'm a native speaker they weren't all that interesting.
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