
Italian Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Italian & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!: Easy Italian Stories, Book 1
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Do you know what the hardest thing for an Italian learner is? Finding the proper learning material that they can handle...which is precisely the reason we’ve created this book!
Teachers love giving out tough, expert-level literature to their students, books that present many new problems to the learner and force them to search for words in a dictionary every five minutes. It's not entertaining, useful, or motivating for the student at all, and many soon give up on learning!
We have compiled 20 easy-listening, compelling, and fun stories to allow you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to improve your grasp of the wonderful Italian language.
How Italian Short Stories for Beginners works:
- Each story will involve an important lesson of the tools in the Italian language (verbs, adjectives, tense, giving directions, and more), involving an interesting and entertaining story with realistic dialogues and day-to-day situations.
- The summaries follow a synopsis in Italian and in English of what you just heard, both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about.
- At the end of those summaries, you'll be provided with a list of the most relevant vocabulary involved in the lesson, as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance!
- Finally, you'll be provided with a set of tricky questions in Italian, providing you with the chance to prove that you learned something in the story. Don't worry if you don't know the answer to any - we will provide them immediately after, but no cheating!
So look no further! Pick up your copy of Italian Short Stories for Beginners, and start learning Italian right now!
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- Listening Length6 hours and 19 minutes
- Audible release date7 December 2018
- LanguageItalian
- ASINB07L45NR21
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 6 hours and 19 minutes |
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Author | Lingo Mastery |
Narrator | Edoardo Camponeschi |
Audible.com.au Release Date | 07 December 2018 |
Publisher | Lingo Mastery |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | Italian |
ASIN | B07L45NR21 |
Best Sellers Rank | 37,505 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 24 in Italian Language Learning 32 in Italian Language Learning for Children 66 in Italian as a Second Language |
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I am a beginner when it comes to learning the Italian language and, whilst this book is not for the "raw" beginner, it is good when one has covered verb conjugations, prepositions and adjectives - the rest is just vocabulary - which is covered at the end of every short story.
In addition, it provides invaluable practice with reading (especially reading aloud) and pronunciation. I like, also, the questions at the end of each story which tells me just how much I have understood the finer points of it.
I started reading the first story and, admittedly, there was at least one word in every sentence which I had to look up in the vocabulary list. Nevertheless, by the time I had read it through twice, I was remembering most of these words.
I repeat, it's not for absolute beginners which its title suggests - hence the reason for my giving this book only four stars instead of five.
However, in conclusion, it's good and I like it and it will definitely help me!
Marianne

This is not too difficult to read and follow the gist of the stories - a couple seem trickier than others. I will say it is worth just reading through each story without stopping. Then again in closer detail trying to comprehend each sentence. Then if you want (as I do) I like to dive deeper into the grammar and look up things I don’t understand and new words.
The stories are (those I’ve read) it appears more aimed at senior school children to read but the language is properly challenging and the stories are actually quite fun!
There is a decent words glossary for each story and a summary in Italian with an English translation plus a quick quiz for each story to check you did understand what it was all about!
My Italian is several years in of light study. And I’m just about ok with this book. Alongside other learning resources it’s helping to slot together difference elements of language comprehension for me.
Clearly my understanding of Italian is better than I realised in some cases because I’ve spotted a couple of errors in the text and glossary words incorrectly translated (or incorrect translation in relation to the story they are featured in) but these errors seem few and don’t detract from the usefulness. In fact if anything the few errors helped me as I’ve looked up words and phrases carefully to be sure I’m not mistaken.
Would I recommend this to learners of Italian? If you’re heading down a slightly more rounded ‘academic’ approach as I’ve decided to take in addition to the day to day conversation study, then yes, it’s good to have well written text to use as part of your learning and this book of short stories is worth it.


It also has an excellent glossary at the end of each story that really boosts your vocabulary. I have only been studying Italian for about 3 months (although I already had a tiny bit of Italian) and am enjoying this book, rarely needing to check the English bits.

Charming stories that engage and entertain.