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Spanish Novels for Advanced Learners - C1 #23
Spanish Novels: Paranormal
Looking for Spanish Novels? 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.
But this book is not like that.
Learning with Spanish Novels 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.
A Spanish Book for The Advanced (C1) Both Fun & Easy Paranormal is the book number 23 of the Spanish Novels Series. This Advanced Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday situations: greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has an advanced command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. You need to know conditionals, gerund, pluperfect and simple past tenses. Besides, in this book you will find longer and more complex sentences and chapters.
Karen is a writer who lives in Miami. Everything in her life is normal and predictable: her job, her friends, and her hobbies. Every day is exactly the same, until she meets a mysterious man at the local Starbucks. He will show her a paranormal world with no limits, where everything seems possible.
This Spanish Book for Advanced Learners 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. This Spanish book will definitely help you work your way up toward even more advanced readings.
Why Spanish Novels Short sentences Short chapters Easy vocabulary Simple grammar Everyday dialogues An Advanced (C1) Spanish Reader in SIMPLE Spanish. From the First Chapter:
Robbie recuerda perfectamente cómo llegó al mundo paranormal. Fue apenas unos minutos después del accidente en moto. Como todas las noches, ese día también iba conduciendo a más de 250km/h. No tenía que llegar a ningún lado en particular, pero tenía prisa. El camión que se cruzó en su camino iba casi tan rápido como él. No tuvo ni siquiera un segundo para reaccionar. Fue instantáneo: después del choque salió disparado de su moto, volando por el aire hacia el costado de la carretera. Lo que sigue es muy vago, nebuloso, como si lo hubiera soñado. No sabe exactamente cómo sucedió, pero recuerda muy bien la imagen. Estaba viendo su propio cuerpo desde afuera. Como si su alma o su espíritu se hubiera desprendido del cuerpo. Sabía que algunas personas hablaban de viajes astrales y de distintos planos de existencia. Lo había leído en libros y en varios sitios de Internet. Aunque le encantaba leer y aprender sobre esas cosas, era sumamente escéptico. Decía: “Hasta que no me suceda a mí no voy a creerlo”. Ahora le estaba sucediendo. Y era mucho más extraño de lo que jamás hubiera imaginado.
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.
But this book is not like that.
Learning with Spanish Novels 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.
A Spanish Book for The Advanced (C1) Both Fun & Easy Paranormal is the book number 23 of the Spanish Novels Series. This Advanced Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday situations: greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has an advanced command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. You need to know conditionals, gerund, pluperfect and simple past tenses. Besides, in this book you will find longer and more complex sentences and chapters.
Karen is a writer who lives in Miami. Everything in her life is normal and predictable: her job, her friends, and her hobbies. Every day is exactly the same, until she meets a mysterious man at the local Starbucks. He will show her a paranormal world with no limits, where everything seems possible.
This Spanish Book for Advanced Learners 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. This Spanish book will definitely help you work your way up toward even more advanced readings.
Why Spanish Novels Short sentences Short chapters Easy vocabulary Simple grammar Everyday dialogues An Advanced (C1) Spanish Reader in SIMPLE Spanish. From the First Chapter:
Robbie recuerda perfectamente cómo llegó al mundo paranormal. Fue apenas unos minutos después del accidente en moto. Como todas las noches, ese día también iba conduciendo a más de 250km/h. No tenía que llegar a ningún lado en particular, pero tenía prisa. El camión que se cruzó en su camino iba casi tan rápido como él. No tuvo ni siquiera un segundo para reaccionar. Fue instantáneo: después del choque salió disparado de su moto, volando por el aire hacia el costado de la carretera. Lo que sigue es muy vago, nebuloso, como si lo hubiera soñado. No sabe exactamente cómo sucedió, pero recuerda muy bien la imagen. Estaba viendo su propio cuerpo desde afuera. Como si su alma o su espíritu se hubiera desprendido del cuerpo. Sabía que algunas personas hablaban de viajes astrales y de distintos planos de existencia. Lo había leído en libros y en varios sitios de Internet. Aunque le encantaba leer y aprender sobre esas cosas, era sumamente escéptico. Decía: “Hasta que no me suceda a mí no voy a creerlo”. Ahora le estaba sucediendo. Y era mucho más extraño de lo que jamás hubiera imaginado.
- GenresSpanish Literature
140 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 26, 2017
About the author
Paco Ardit
33 books83 followersPaco 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.
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.
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March 6, 2021
This is another great novella from Paco Ardit. It’s at C1 for advanced learners level so unless you want to be dipping into a dictionary or grammar every two minutes, you will need to have a pretty good understanding of the subjunctive, conditionals, gerunds and the various past tenses. If you’re a bit shaky with the pluperfect or conditional forms, you might be better off reading some of Paco Ardit’s books at B1 or B2 levels before you tackle this one. Also, be aware that the novel is set in Miami, so South American usage is going on somewhere, although I didn’t really notice it.
I won’t give away too much of the plot. A woman with a fascination for the paranormal writes novels about astral beings and angels and who knows what. Her best friend realises that reality and fiction are becoming intertwined as a character in her current novel appears in her local Starbucks….
This is the third C1 book of Paco Ardit’s that I have read recently. I will now move on to his C2 books (there are three of those at the moment). By then I think I might be ready to read some “real” Spanish and Latin American literature. And that’s not to cast any aspersions on Paco Ardit. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a good feel for Spanish grammar but isn’t quite ready for “real” Spanish novels. His books are a great way to improve your ability to read Spanish, especially if you follow them from A1 to C2 at a steady pace – if you set out to read two a month, you could finish all 26 in just over a year and you would see a tremendous improvement in your Spanish reading skills.
I won’t give away too much of the plot. A woman with a fascination for the paranormal writes novels about astral beings and angels and who knows what. Her best friend realises that reality and fiction are becoming intertwined as a character in her current novel appears in her local Starbucks….
This is the third C1 book of Paco Ardit’s that I have read recently. I will now move on to his C2 books (there are three of those at the moment). By then I think I might be ready to read some “real” Spanish and Latin American literature. And that’s not to cast any aspersions on Paco Ardit. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a good feel for Spanish grammar but isn’t quite ready for “real” Spanish novels. His books are a great way to improve your ability to read Spanish, especially if you follow them from A1 to C2 at a steady pace – if you set out to read two a month, you could finish all 26 in just over a year and you would see a tremendous improvement in your Spanish reading skills.
July 1, 2021
This review is for the audio version.
As a Spanish learning tool, Paranormal is great. The vocabulary is diverse and the spoken style is at a good pace (not quite native-speaker fast, but getting close). There’s a mix of dialogue and written word, which I was shoot about. Except for one voice actress who was a bit over the top and whose sound quality was poor, I enjoyed the various narrators.
As a story, it’s OK. Its pacing is fast and kept me engaged, but the storyline is very simple… too simple. Ditto for the characters. Since my objective with this book was entirely to practice my aural Spanish comprehension and understand where my gaps are, I’m well satisfied.
As a Spanish learning tool, Paranormal is great. The vocabulary is diverse and the spoken style is at a good pace (not quite native-speaker fast, but getting close). There’s a mix of dialogue and written word, which I was shoot about. Except for one voice actress who was a bit over the top and whose sound quality was poor, I enjoyed the various narrators.
As a story, it’s OK. Its pacing is fast and kept me engaged, but the storyline is very simple… too simple. Ditto for the characters. Since my objective with this book was entirely to practice my aural Spanish comprehension and understand where my gaps are, I’m well satisfied.
October 16, 2020
The goal here is to practice reading Spanish. Simple contemporary story with just enough difficulties to learn a bit more.
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