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Spanish Novels for Pre Intermediates - A2 #6
Spanish Novels: Laura no está (Spanish Novels for Pre Intermediates - A2) (Spanish Novels Series)
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.
Laura no está is the sixth book of the Spanish Novels Series. This Pre Intermediate Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has a basic command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. I assume you know your pronouns, articles, and the most used verbs/nouns in Spanish. You also need to know simple present, past and future tenses.
A mistery story that takes place in Buenos Aires. Laura is a street drawer. She makes portraits and landscapes, and sells them in a pedestrian street. One day a strange man from Sweden shows up. He starts buying portraits. And a few days later, Laura is gone. Her friend Claudio will try to find her.
This Spanish book for Pre Intermediates 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. There's no doubt about An Intermediate Spanish book is the perfect place to keep improving the language.
Sample
Todos los días Laura vende sus dibujos en la calle.
A Laura le encanta conversar con sus amigos.
Le gustan los libros de misterio y las biografías de rock.
Los domingos lee bastante, mira películas y sale al parque con amigos.
Laura no está includes a short guide to download and install a FREE Spanish-English Dictionary . Look up the meaning of any word you don't know and add it to your vocabulary lists. Reading short stories in Spanish using Kindle's dictionaries is much more easy and fun.
If you are familiar with common structures of the language you can tackle this novel. An Intermediate Spanish book is supposed to be read by language learners, isn't it? What would be the point to stuff the book with difficult grammar, translations and the like? It'd make no sense! The best you can do is work your way up with easy readings. Once you finish some Spanish novels you'll have learned a lot about the language in everyday situations.
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.
Laura no está is the sixth book of the Spanish Novels Series. This Pre Intermediate Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has a basic command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. I assume you know your pronouns, articles, and the most used verbs/nouns in Spanish. You also need to know simple present, past and future tenses.
A mistery story that takes place in Buenos Aires. Laura is a street drawer. She makes portraits and landscapes, and sells them in a pedestrian street. One day a strange man from Sweden shows up. He starts buying portraits. And a few days later, Laura is gone. Her friend Claudio will try to find her.
This Spanish book for Pre Intermediates 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. There's no doubt about An Intermediate Spanish book is the perfect place to keep improving the language.
Sample
Todos los días Laura vende sus dibujos en la calle.
A Laura le encanta conversar con sus amigos.
Le gustan los libros de misterio y las biografías de rock.
Los domingos lee bastante, mira películas y sale al parque con amigos.
Laura no está includes a short guide to download and install a FREE Spanish-English Dictionary . Look up the meaning of any word you don't know and add it to your vocabulary lists. Reading short stories in Spanish using Kindle's dictionaries is much more easy and fun.
If you are familiar with common structures of the language you can tackle this novel. An Intermediate Spanish book is supposed to be read by language learners, isn't it? What would be the point to stuff the book with difficult grammar, translations and the like? It'd make no sense! The best you can do is work your way up with easy readings. Once you finish some Spanish novels you'll have learned a lot about the language in everyday situations.
103 pages, Paperback
First published February 13, 2015
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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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February 25, 2015
As a graded reader, this is a great book, below my current level, but it threw me a few times, oh will I ever get used to 20 countries worth of dialects and colloquialisms?
The book is quite short, so you don't burn out trying to read a big clunky novel while thumbing through a dictionary. Each page of text is one chapter, and the story is somewhat simplified and accelerated to give Spanish language learners a bit of a sense of pride. I read a whole book in Spanish today! *patpat*
One of the things I like the most about this authors readers is there's no translation, not even at the lowest level. There is lots of repitition and giving the same word in different contexts, so if you're patient, you can usually mostly read through without using your dictionary, and then cherry-pick back through for interesting words and phrases.
The book is quite short, so you don't burn out trying to read a big clunky novel while thumbing through a dictionary. Each page of text is one chapter, and the story is somewhat simplified and accelerated to give Spanish language learners a bit of a sense of pride. I read a whole book in Spanish today! *patpat*
One of the things I like the most about this authors readers is there's no translation, not even at the lowest level. There is lots of repitition and giving the same word in different contexts, so if you're patient, you can usually mostly read through without using your dictionary, and then cherry-pick back through for interesting words and phrases.
December 30, 2021
An excellent read for learning Spanish.
It's taken me a year, but, a year ago, I had to set it aside, because I struggled with it. Now,after, countless reads of Spanish newspaper articles, have reached a level of comfort, that it was a breeze.
It's taken me a year, but, a year ago, I had to set it aside, because I struggled with it. Now,after, countless reads of Spanish newspaper articles, have reached a level of comfort, that it was a breeze.
January 12, 2024
I started the A2 series of books by Paco Ardit with this one. I enjoyed the learning experience immensely. It was perfect for my level of Spanish. More importantly, it was an enjoyable story. If you are an A2 level reader in Spanish, this is a good book to pick up.
July 1, 2019
A good read for a Spanish language learner such as me. As an A2 level book there are many words that are useful to pick up from this book. A nice story to follow too ! :)
November 8, 2017
Does just what it should.
I enjoyed the story enough to keep reading. The difficulty levels of all these books by Ardit are carefully set; they do their job precisely.
I enjoyed the story enough to keep reading. The difficulty levels of all these books by Ardit are carefully set; they do their job precisely.
February 26, 2016
I enjoyed reading this book. I learned new vocabulary. I liked the storyline. It is a great book for someone learning Spanish to read.
December 30, 2023
Decent stories for learning Spanish - each novel increases in level. The stories were occasionally repetitive or boring, but I enjoyed them overall.
October 17, 2025
El español de Argentina had me doubting all my español knowledge
March 27, 2016
Long book title -- "Spanish Novels: Laura no está (Spanish Novels for Pre Intermediates - A2)" -- for a short book. The book has 80 bite-sized "chapters" in Spanish, where each "chapter" contains only a dozen or so sentences -- good for those with a basic command of Spanish, but a bit tougher for beginners like me (although I did previously get through a beginner book in the same format by the same author). There is no English translation, but an easy download of a free Spanish-English dictionary lets you highlight any word and get the definition, as long as you have an eBook version. I did a LOT of highlight-lookup operations, but the process gets the job done. Note that some of the Spanish involved is specific to South America, meaning that not all of the words were found in the dictionary, which is geared more toward Spain and Mexico (I think).
The book story itself is about an artist (Laura) in Buenos Aires and her friend Claudio. When Laura is offered a commission by a strange Swedish man, she accepts but goes missing after a while. Claudio gets concerned and starts looking for her. Not great literature, naturally, but good enough for the purpose.
It took me a fair while to muddle through the book, but I think that was *my* problem, not the book's. It pointed out to me that I'm still a beginner, not a "Pre Intermediate". Now if only I could retain the vocabulary I did actually "learn".
The book story itself is about an artist (Laura) in Buenos Aires and her friend Claudio. When Laura is offered a commission by a strange Swedish man, she accepts but goes missing after a while. Claudio gets concerned and starts looking for her. Not great literature, naturally, but good enough for the purpose.
It took me a fair while to muddle through the book, but I think that was *my* problem, not the book's. It pointed out to me that I'm still a beginner, not a "Pre Intermediate". Now if only I could retain the vocabulary I did actually "learn".
February 11, 2017
A super useful graded reader. I've bought and look forward to reading more!
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