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Spanish Short Stories for Beginners + Audio Download: Improve your Spanish Listening and Reading Comprehension Skills (Easy Spanish Beginner Stories nº 1)
Develop your Spanish listening skills, expand your Spanish vocabulary, and improve your Spanish pronunciation with Spanish Short Stories for Beginners.What you will get with Spanish Short Stories for Beginn
✔ Easy Spanish stories targeted at Simple (but not boring) stories written with the most useful Spanish grammar structures and common Spanish vocabulary.
✔ Spanish audio Improve your listening comprehension with the two versions of the audio. One version is recorded at a normal speed and one at a slower pace (link available at the end of the book).
✔ Get good at Spanish Follow the narrator’s speech and mimic the correct pronunciation.
✔ Challenge yourself with the two versions of the One version has a glossary between each paragraph. But if you aren’t confident enough for that yet, start by reading the dual Spanish and English parallel text.
✔ Assess your comprehension of each Do the quiz at the end of each one.
✔ Revise your vocabulary with the Ideal if you like to memorize the vocabulary as flashcards.
With this book and accompanying audio, you can start improving your Spanish today!
✔ Easy Spanish stories targeted at Simple (but not boring) stories written with the most useful Spanish grammar structures and common Spanish vocabulary.
✔ Spanish audio Improve your listening comprehension with the two versions of the audio. One version is recorded at a normal speed and one at a slower pace (link available at the end of the book).
✔ Get good at Spanish Follow the narrator’s speech and mimic the correct pronunciation.
✔ Challenge yourself with the two versions of the One version has a glossary between each paragraph. But if you aren’t confident enough for that yet, start by reading the dual Spanish and English parallel text.
✔ Assess your comprehension of each Do the quiz at the end of each one.
✔ Revise your vocabulary with the Ideal if you like to memorize the vocabulary as flashcards.
With this book and accompanying audio, you can start improving your Spanish today!
244 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 2, 2016
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March 28, 2019
Excelente por estudiantes.
Unas de historias son muy buenas. Pero no es facile. He estudiado por dos años y fue bastante difícil para mi. También, el acento del hombre que habla en los mp3s es de España... no es una cosa mala pero es algo para saber.
Unas de historias son muy buenas. Pero no es facile. He estudiado por dos años y fue bastante difícil para mi. También, el acento del hombre que habla en los mp3s es de España... no es una cosa mala pero es algo para saber.
September 30, 2023
Free audiobook download
Stories are good and easy for beginners, also free audiobook can be downloaded. I listen to the book almost every night before sleep.
Stories are good and easy for beginners, also free audiobook can be downloaded. I listen to the book almost every night before sleep.
June 2, 2025
Me gusta este libro de lectura para quienes desean practicar el español. El libro presenta una colección de 11 cuentos cortos que abordan situaciones cotidianas. El vocabulario y las estructuras gramaticales están al alcance de principiantes y estudiantes de nivel intermedio bajo. Cada historia viene acompañada de grabaciones por hablantes nativos para que el estudiante pueda escuchar la pronunciación correcta y mejorar su comprensión oral. Los cuentos también incluyen glosarios integrados en español e inglés que facilitan el aprendizaje de vocabulario y ejercicios de comprensión que permiten a los lectores evaluar su comprensión.
September 22, 2019
However, this book is for serious beginners, who really want to learn Spanish and are willing to accept the challenge of a rather intense layout of procedures. I must admit that the challenge was certainly beneficial. I would suggest that the slow audio section be speeded up a little. It is quite slow .
August 13, 2019
I have found this book fantastic practice for listening and understanding Spanish. The audiobook comes with an accompanying PDF document containing transcriptions of each of the 11 short stories with a glossary of new vocabulary and summaries in Spanish and English. I would say, however, this is not for beginners. If you have very rudimentary Spanish skills than this may be a step to far at the moment if you intend to listen without the written text in front of you. The grammar in this book is around B1/B2 level for those that follow the official DELE exam curricula. I say this as I'm currently studying for the B2 exam and can follow probably 75% of the content here without having to pause and read the extracts. For people at a similar level to myself, I would recommend this as a great way to get some Spanish listening in, rather than trying to watch films or television which, whilst more authentic can be a little intimidating due to how fast native Spanish speakers converse!
One last thing, a couple of the stories get surprisingly gruesome at parts, which caught me off guard. Whilst not overly so (it's not exactly Steven King), I wasn't expecting such narrative turns as the early stories are typically tame for a foreign language text book!
One last thing, a couple of the stories get surprisingly gruesome at parts, which caught me off guard. Whilst not overly so (it's not exactly Steven King), I wasn't expecting such narrative turns as the early stories are typically tame for a foreign language text book!
April 2, 2018
Review first before reading
When I was starting to read the book from the first few pages, a prompt popped out asking me to review the book. It wouldn’t let me go to the next page until I make my review. Strange and annoying.
When I was starting to read the book from the first few pages, a prompt popped out asking me to review the book. It wouldn’t let me go to the next page until I make my review. Strange and annoying.
November 17, 2018
Great read. Quirky, memorable stories .
Really enjoyed this. The stories build vocabulary as you read, but importantly the word stick because the stories have great twists. A really quirky & enjoyable read, plus you are learning!!
Really enjoyed this. The stories build vocabulary as you read, but importantly the word stick because the stories have great twists. A really quirky & enjoyable read, plus you are learning!!
March 28, 2019
Great little stories
These are great little stories, although I would argue that they are not beginning level but more intermediate. I wish there was a Portuguese version, as well. Thank you!
These are great little stories, although I would argue that they are not beginning level but more intermediate. I wish there was a Portuguese version, as well. Thank you!
March 20, 2020
Decent amount of errors, even in the quizzes. Por ejemplo, in the first quiz the answer is listed as E) when this wasn't even a choice on the quiz. Just one example here... and that's the first story.
Otherwise, a good supplement & teaches some interesting expressions.
Otherwise, a good supplement & teaches some interesting expressions.
May 23, 2019
Fantastico
These short stories are really helpful. I read aloud daily and its vastly improved my spoken Spanish and my understanding. Well worth the read.
These short stories are really helpful. I read aloud daily and its vastly improved my spoken Spanish and my understanding. Well worth the read.
July 7, 2020
Useful for beginner to intermediate Spanish students.
February 17, 2023
I found the characters horribly dull, and the language felt like Spanish written by an English speaker. Also the layout is terrible.
January 19, 2017
**4.5 Stars** As a teacher of language, all ages but more than half of my students are children, I would and will personally recommend this book to those trying to learn Spanish. I have learned 2 additional languages other than my mother tongue, that of American Sign Language and Spanish, so I have looked for all manner of books and such to help me in my learning. What most strikes me as useful about this book is that the simple "stories" and conversations are full of common everyday words that one will use so you can get started practicing immediately which will greatly help in the learning process. The more one can use the words on a daily basis the faster they will make progress and having stories such as the one in the book do just that. I know for me when I was learning Spanish I did not want to practice until I could say something useful and not make me feel as if I was unintelligent because my words were more along the lines of what a child would say. This book will help learners get over the fear of sounding foolish or childish and have more confidence in using what they learn.
Something else about the book is that the basic sentences also teach you the conjugation of the verbs in the process so you will more readily grasp the concepts in later advanced stages of learning Spanish. The audio download IS A MUST so please be sure to take the 5 minutes time and get it. Also, science has shown that when we involve more of our senses in the learning process the better we retain the information so listening and reading along will help immensely in retention as well as with pronunciation.
The only reason I did not mark this book 5 stars is because I would like to have seen a phonetic guide for the pronunciation of the vocabulary words. And another useful aspect of the book was the vocabulary list at the end of each chapter, it allows you to bookmark the page and return to just one spot to review them as opposed to having to flip or scroll through pages.
Something else about the book is that the basic sentences also teach you the conjugation of the verbs in the process so you will more readily grasp the concepts in later advanced stages of learning Spanish. The audio download IS A MUST so please be sure to take the 5 minutes time and get it. Also, science has shown that when we involve more of our senses in the learning process the better we retain the information so listening and reading along will help immensely in retention as well as with pronunciation.
The only reason I did not mark this book 5 stars is because I would like to have seen a phonetic guide for the pronunciation of the vocabulary words. And another useful aspect of the book was the vocabulary list at the end of each chapter, it allows you to bookmark the page and return to just one spot to review them as opposed to having to flip or scroll through pages.
December 23, 2021
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