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Italian Short Stories For Intermediate Learners: 8 Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Italian the Fun Way!
Grow your vocabulary, perfect your grammar, and ignite your imagination with these eight unconventional Italian short stories for intermediate 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 Italian
Intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you reading, while learning new vocabulary and improving your Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian, rather than struggling through dense text with no support
An expert, five-step guide to reading Italian effectively, so you can become a better learner, and use reading as a tool to become fluent
Italian 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 Italian that avoids much of the obscure vocabulary and ambiguous grammar that has frustrated you when you’ve tried to read Italian 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 Italian, 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 Italian:
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 Italian 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 Italian
Intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you reading, while learning new vocabulary and improving your Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian, rather than struggling through dense text with no support
An expert, five-step guide to reading Italian effectively, so you can become a better learner, and use reading as a tool to become fluent
Italian 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 Italian that avoids much of the obscure vocabulary and ambiguous grammar that has frustrated you when you’ve tried to read Italian 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 Italian, 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 Italian:
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 Italian 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!
244 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 8, 2016
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December 24, 2022
From a language learning perspective: had a fun time here. Honestly got so much more out of this than grinding Duolingo.
From a literary analysis standpoints: 🙃🙃
From a literary analysis standpoints: 🙃🙃
March 27, 2019
Awesome short stories to help you increase your vocabulary
Awesome short stories to help you increase your italian vocabulary and have some fun.
I loved the book and recomend it to you If you 're learning italian.
Awesome short stories to help you increase your italian vocabulary and have some fun.
I loved the book and recomend it to you If you 're learning italian.
June 19, 2019
If you are looking for intermediate level stories in Italian, these are a possibility. Unfortunately some of them also appear in the equivalent book in Spanish, which I've already read. Some are good, some a little boring. Some are complete, some end a little abruptly.
I wish there were audio available with them. I think there may be, but you have to buy it separately as an audio book.
Nevertheless I got in practice reading Italian, and that is a good way to start learning a language. You pick up vocabulary, and the stories all contain conversations, so you get a feel for how Italian is spoken. They mostly use the more formal past tense, which I hadn't actally met in my lessons, so that was a good way to familiarize myself with it.
I wish there were audio available with them. I think there may be, but you have to buy it separately as an audio book.
Nevertheless I got in practice reading Italian, and that is a good way to start learning a language. You pick up vocabulary, and the stories all contain conversations, so you get a feel for how Italian is spoken. They mostly use the more formal past tense, which I hadn't actally met in my lessons, so that was a good way to familiarize myself with it.
February 24, 2019
Useful intermediate level short stories that I found really helped with my Italian. The format is good and the notes at the start are well judged as they advise against looking anything up and to just try and make sense of the text as best one can. There are multiple choices questions at the end. Fairly simple stuff so pitched at the right level although the preponderance of object pronouns often left me puzzled as to who was addressing whom in the dialogue heavy interactions. The stories themselves are fine but not especially gripping - too much fantasy for my liking. Dracula makes an appearance and there's also a bit of sci-fi.
January 27, 2019
Useful!
Had fun with this. I liked the recurring vocabulary - very helpful in increasing my fluency without long lists to memorize. Some of the stories were creepy but in a good way. Would def recommend to someone with basic italian but who needs practice
Had fun with this. I liked the recurring vocabulary - very helpful in increasing my fluency without long lists to memorize. Some of the stories were creepy but in a good way. Would def recommend to someone with basic italian but who needs practice
September 2, 2019
Loved these
Olly did a great job with these. Entertaining and at the perfect level of Italian. They helped improve my Italian in an enjoyable way.
Olly did a great job with these. Entertaining and at the perfect level of Italian. They helped improve my Italian in an enjoyable way.
September 10, 2025
Perfect for Italian learners
January 8, 2021
My favorite Italian language training read. I throughly enjoyed these short stories, as they were designed with a fast pace to motivate the reader through each story and a lightness to them that balanced out the challenge of language learning. They greatly increased my confidence in written and spoken Italian. I would love to have more in this series.
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