Spanish Short Stories for Beginners Volume 2: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Spanish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!

by Lingo Mastery

Finding material for your Spanish immersion can be a nightmare.


We know how you feel, and we’ve addressed it! Spanish students regularly have to go through the toughest experiences to find proper reading material that isn’t too tough for them — as teachers; we know this. This is why we’ve created Spanish Short Stories for Beginners to ensure that young and old students at the Beginner level can have yet another chance to immerse themselves into fun and interactive stories designer for you, the student. Twenty easy-to-read, entertaining and interesting stories await inside, along with the best tools to help you practice once you’re done reading each tale. Our book will ensure you not only can read something that will expand your knowledge on Spanish but that you will understand and be able to pick it apart piece by piece in your quest for learning. How Spanish Short Stories For Beginners Do you think you can handle it? If the answer is yes, then you’re definitely on your way to becoming a Spanish speaker, and we’ll certainly make that dream come true! We recommend this book for Spanish learners at A2 level and above as it is designed for students with a basic understanding of Spanish. So look no further! Pick up your copy of Spanish Short Stories for Beginners and start learning Spanish right now !

Genres: Spanish Literature

222 pages, Paperback

Published October 17, 2019

Reviews

[Kender · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wouldn't call "Spanish Short Stories for Beginners, Vol 2" a book for beginners. It probably uses every verb tense available, which I wouldn't expect beginners to have learned yet. After ten years of studying Spanish, I still didn't know a lot of the vocabulary here. Fortunately the e-book made that easy; you just touch the word and the definition pops up (you might have to tell it to translate from Spanish if it can't figure out the language). There is a glossary after each chapter/story as well as a summary in Spanish and English. I wouldn't call these stories "captivating," either; they're not the kind of thing I would bother reading in English. However dull, this book was pretty close to what I wanted for practicing Spanish and learning some new vocabulary, so I'll give it 4 stars. I'm going to look for others in the series and try to find some books for pre-teens or young adults in a genre I might like better (fantasy or sci-fi, if anyone has recommendations.)

[Ben Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed it

Definitely would read again. I enjoyed the stories and mostly understood them. They were nice light reads. I definitely recommend them to people interested in Spanish.

[Chip · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found book one to be much more engaging. Sometimes I feel as if the authors are just throwing vocabulary word at you.

[Joseph Hirsch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Over the course of the last year, I've worked my way through this book, along with other Spanish aids (episodes of Caso Cerrado on YouTube, a Total Immersion Book, index cards, and starting awkward conversations in public). The other aids might have helped more with specifics, like grammar or expanding vocabulary, but this book of short stories has done more for comprehension as a whole than all the other aids put together.

It takes time, especially at first, to settle into the rhythm of a story, since new words are constantly encountered in the reading, but I somehow found this floundering in real stories a better learning experience than being spoon fed beginner sentences about items on a table or oranges at a supermarket. Come to think of it, the ability of the stories' complexity to overwhelm (at first) mimics the overwhelming effect one feels when they're actually in another country, talking to native speakers.

And the difficulty yields great fruits, including an introduction to Spanish humor and idioms that might otherwise take years to assimilate. Best of all, the stories are interesting, and include tales of a group of cats battling over a bowl of tuna and a kid whose house is ruined by thoughtless partiers.

Each chapter contains a vocabulary list at the end (though again, I recommend you flounder a bit before getting translations for new terms). There is also a summary, in Spanish and English, followed by a series of questions at the very end just to doublecheck the reader's comprehension of the material presented.

I used the book for independent study, but it would undoubtedly serve well in either a secondary or postsecondary course as well. More precocious younger learners could probably get a lot of use out of it, but it is probably not ideal as a first introduction to Spanish. Regardless, it gets my highest recommendation.

[Chris Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finally reached the end of this book. I only took so long because I kept going back and re- reading previous stories as I learned more Spanish. It was very useful and I learned a lot along the way.