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Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners Paperback - 2019

Name: Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners
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Author: Richards, Olly
ISBN: 9781529361810

by Olly Richards

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This seller has earned a 3.96 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.

3.96 / 5 (439 total reviews)

Readers broadly praise this as an effective tool for intermediate Spanish learners, offering short, genre-diverse stories reinforced by glossaries, summaries, and comprehension questions. Many valued the everyday vocabulary, repetition across stories, and gradual increase in grammatical complexity, with some appreciating exposure to the vosotros form. Critiques focus on thin or silly plots, occasional mistakes or awkward coinages, and a formulaic feel tied to non-native authorship; some wished for more realistic relevance. Overall, it’s regarded as a confidence-building stepping stone to more authentic literature, better for practice than for literary merit.

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From the publisher

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners.

"I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers

Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-approaching B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you, and give you a feeling of progress when reading.

What does this book give you?

- Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary
- Controlled language at your level, including the 1000 most frequent words, to help you progress confidently
- Authentic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability
- Pleasure! It's much easier to learn a new language when you're having fun, and research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!'
- Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way

Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories include key features that will support and consolidate your progress, including

- A glossary for bolded words in each text
- A bilingual word list
- Full plot summary
- Comprehension questions after each chapter.

As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoyingreading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners uses reading as the perfect tool to not only delight in learning Spanish, but to start your journey towards fluency.

Details

Title Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners
Author Olly Richards
Binding Paperback
Pages 224
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Teach Yourself
Publication date 2019-12-03
Features Glossary
ISBN 9781529361810 / 1529361818
Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
Category Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books
Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Spanish language - English
Dewey Decimal Code 468.642

About the author

Olly Richards speaks eight languages and is the man behind the popular blog: I Will Teach You A Language. He started learning his first foreign language at age 19, when he bought a one-way ticket to Paris...

With no exposure to languages growing up, and no special talent to speak of, he had to figure out how to learn a foreign language from scratch. Fifteen years later, Olly has studied ten languages and has decided to reveal how he accomplished his goal of learning foreign languages quickly.

Although he started the I Will Teach You A Language blog in order to document his latest language learning experiments, his useful and actionable writing quickly transformed the blog into one of the most popular sources of language learning advice on the web. He now produces language books and courses across a variety of mediums with the goal of helping other people to successfully learn a new language.