Short Stories in Italian for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Italian the fun way! (Readers Vol. 1) (Italian Edition) Kindle Edition

I have been studying Italian on my phone with an app and have taken a couple Italian courses some years back. I don't have access to people speaking the language all the time so I was thrilled to find a beginners book for adults! This book is EXACTLY what I was looking for. It gives excellent tips in the beginning of the book that are beneficial and includes vocabulary lists and comprehension questions after each short story. I especially like the short stories for two reasons: 1) I get the satisfaction of completing an entire story that isn't the length of an entire book and 2) The stories are intentionally varied so you are more likely to find some you really enjoy.I am half way through and I highly recommend this book. It is so satisfying to sit down and read in the new language I have been studying! If I could make one suggestion it might be to include an index of the new vocabulary words or perhaps a glossary so when I forget one that I KNOW was in one of the stories, I don't have to try and search through the book.

This is my second book for learning Italian and so far the best. The stories are simple enough to understand and the exercises are a good tool to learn.I ended up buying the whole beginner series AND the intermediate series.Leggi questo libro!

My only quibble (and it's a small one) with this book is that some of the words I don't understand are not included in the vocabulary lists at the end of the chapter, while quite a few of the words I already know (some of them cognates which are easy to figure out) are. Well, Kindle readers have an advantage here, with their built-in dictionaries. You can go to the Manage Your Content and Devices page and add the Italian-English dictionary to your home page, and when you don't know a word, leave your finger on the word for a moment to bring up the dictionary and choose the Italian dictionary and you will have the definition. After you select the dictionary the first time, the Kindle remembers the association between that book and that dictionary, so you don't have to select the dictionary each time.I studied Italian for six months before I went on a vacation to Italy. I completed the DuoLingo course online and also the Mango course available online at your library (probably). I also studied a few lessons on the Babbel website (I didn't like their approach as well as DuoLingo's). These stories are just right for me! A chance to review what I've learned, and keep it in my memory, while at the same time effortlessly learning tenses and syntax and lots more vocabulary. The stories--mostly adventure stories--won't win any prizes, but they are pleasant and engaging and I really enjoyed reading them. I like to read them out loud to practice my pronunciation.

When I first started reading this book, I gave up. Too much referring back to translate words etc but I returned after many months of continuing with my Duolingo and I got much better. The stories are still an odd assortment but I understood.

Me compre este libro cuando me estaba mudando a italia.Me sirvio mucho, gracias al libro pude aprender mucho mas facil, te enseña vocabulario cotidiano y de uso práctico sobre todo.Ante cualquier duda siempre podras consultar los significados de las palabras nuevas.Es muy fácil de leer

I bought this while living in Italy for one month, having completed around two months of Duolingo 4-7x a week. So my level was just beyond beginner, and I wanted to experiment with the comprehensible input-only method of language learning. What I found with this book, first of all, is how much fun and how encouraging it was to be able to read, understand, and finish stories. It didn't feel like nearly as much work as the usual textbook method. At the same time, as I got further into the book I found myself recognizing and understanding many more often-used words and phrases used by the locals. After a week or so I even mustered up the courage to have some very basic exchanges in Italian, without ever having taken a test or opened a notebook. This is definitely a fun way to enhance your learning and acquire a natural sense of grammar and gain vocabulary, all the while creating a sense of accomplishment and building your confidence.

It says for beginners on the front but when you receive the book, it says high beginner to low intermediate learners on the back of the book. So if you are just starting out like me, this will be too hard. I'll save this book for when I get to the "High beginner to low intermediate" level.

Awesome book

Good book for learning through dialogue. I would rate this just above beginner level on the difficulty scale. The most difficult of words are presented to you again at the end of each reading which is fantastic. The stories are easy to follow along and surprisingly interesting. This is the first time buying a book from this author - I wasn’t crazy about the error in one of the questions at the end of the first chapter - the answer is not accurate for question 5. I sent a msg to the author on LinkedIn to see if maybe I got something wrong with my interpretation of the question/answer, they read it but did not respond. I showed it to a few italian family members and they agreed that it didn’t make sense. So I was kinda thrown off a bit after the first chapter but whatever, I will continue buying books from this author.

Me gustan las historias del libro, se siente chido comprender todas (o casi todas las palabras). Yo lo leo en la kindle y aparecen algunas palabras subrayadas, al darle click te lleva a una lista de palabras/frases con su significado. Altamente recomendable para estudiantes de italiano.

Histórias fáceis e curtas para treinar a compreensão de texto.

Tried to learn a smidgeon of Italian and found this very useful in making my brain absorb patterns of speech and making me focus on possible words that might help comprehension.

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