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Italian Short Stories for Beginners: Improve your reading and listening skills in Italian (Learn Italian with Stories Vol. 1)
Develop your Italian listening skills, expand your Italian vocabulary, and improve your Italian pronunciation with Italian Short Stories for Beginners.What you will get with Italian Short Stories for ✔ Easy Italian stories targeted at Simple (but not boring) stories written with the most useful Italian grammar structures and common Italian vocabulary.
✔ Italian audio Improve your listening comprehension with the audio files.
✔ Get good at Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian today!
✔ Italian audio Improve your listening comprehension with the audio files.
✔ Get good at Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian today!
311 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 18, 2017
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August 10, 2023
my aunt gave this to me for xmas like two years ago and tbh idk why i procrastinated reading it but as someone who speaks fluent italian i can confirm that some of the translations that they had were wrong at worst and slightly off at best. they also highlighted certain vocab words to help the readers, but so many of the highlighted words were ones that didn't need clarifying. either way, i speak the language, and the stories were entertaining enough. thanks zia!
November 20, 2019
Relatively interesting short stories for adult readers, ramping up the difficulty as you progress on to the following stories. Each story is divided up in an Italian only version, with some difficult word showing up and then a version of the same story where you can read Italian/English in parallel.
A big flaw is that the "difficult words" actually chooses pretty simple words at many points, leaving the actual difficult ones not translated (pro-tip: read it on the Kindle).
When you're done with the book you actually get some confidence that you're able to read in Italian, that is until you start reading an actual piece in Italian...
A big flaw is that the "difficult words" actually chooses pretty simple words at many points, leaving the actual difficult ones not translated (pro-tip: read it on the Kindle).
When you're done with the book you actually get some confidence that you're able to read in Italian, that is until you start reading an actual piece in Italian...
May 24, 2019
Very helpful
Reading short stories gave me vocabulary that would not necessarily be introduced in typical lessons. I would have liked to have the audio version read a tad slower, as well as normal cadence, though I still appreciated the normal speed which forced me to concentrate and think faster.
Reading short stories gave me vocabulary that would not necessarily be introduced in typical lessons. I would have liked to have the audio version read a tad slower, as well as normal cadence, though I still appreciated the normal speed which forced me to concentrate and think faster.
October 2, 2019
It gave me exactly what I needed.
I used this to practice my listening skills and compare my speech to what sounds like a native speaker. Lots of tools out there but this is one of the most useful.
I used this to practice my listening skills and compare my speech to what sounds like a native speaker. Lots of tools out there but this is one of the most useful.
October 20, 2019
Truly good for beginners, stories with really useful vocabulary
December 4, 2020
Great book
This book was a challenge for me to work through but it's delivered what it promised. Fun stories and a boost to my knowledge of Italian.
This book was a challenge for me to work through but it's delivered what it promised. Fun stories and a boost to my knowledge of Italian.
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