Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Spanish the fun way! (Foreign Language Graded Reader Series nº 1) (Spanish Edition)

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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!'

Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners - Olly Richards

The podcast is aimed at a low intermediate level (A2-B1 on the Common European Framework [CEFR]). So, this podcast is not for complete beginners. This second volume of the bestselling Teach Yourself Graded Readers series features 8 compelling new stories in a variety of genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller, so you’ll have fun reading, while learning a wide range of new vocabulary and rapidly improving your Spanish comprehension! About: A collection of short stories in Spanish, described as being for high-beginners/low-intermediate language learners. In these stories, you'll see a woman turn invisible, journey with Vikings to explore new lands, run from a beast in the woods and be a knight on a quest for the king, as well as many more. How would you like to win a FREE set of my bestselling Spanish story books (plus the accompanying audiobooks)?Everything is very simplified so the stories rely a lot on stereotypes of personalities (this is especially true of El caballero, La capsula and Tierras desconocidas). So a lot of the characters don't have very interesting personalities and the motivations are quite cliché for some things. But that's to be expected and necessary when the language itself has to be simplified.

Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners, Volume 2 - Hachette UK

Authentic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability So, there's no waiting for a week to get the next episode. You'll have a new chapter of the story to tune into every single day which means you can really develop the habit of listening to and immersing yourself in Spanish daily. This will really annoy the inconsistency villain! Who Is This Podcast For? But if you haven't learned with a story-based method before, you might be wondering, “Well okay, you're going to give me a chapter of a story every day, but what exactly do I do with it? How do I learn from that?” Stories are broken down into manageable chapters, so you make progress with the story and feel a sense of achievement. Realistic amounts of new vocabulary are introduced so that you’re not deterred by complex words. Instead of pausing to look up every word, you’ll absorb new vocabulary from the context of the story, and have the satisfaction of that moment when you say: “I totally understood that sentence!”These features are a big deal, because they're exactly the kind of thing you don't normally get with Spanish podcast. Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners, Volume 2 is written for students from high-beginner to intermediate level. The eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when reading. You’ll enjoy reading in Spanish, grow your vocabulary in a natural way, and improve your comprehension at the same time. Based on extensive research into how people most enjoy and benefit from reading in a new language, this book eliminates the frustrations you experience when trying to read in Spanish. The StoryLearning Spanish podcast is a daily Spanish podcast for intermediate level learners (A2-B1). Olly’s top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work – and you will too!

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Then we follow this with one of my favorite techniques: reading and listening at the same time. I'm a big fan of this technique because it helps you fill in the gaps as you go. We couldn't be prouder of the podcast we've produced and we're very excited to share it with the world.

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Controlled language at your level, including the 1000 most frequent words, to help you progress confidently Each episode features one short chapter of our story and we release one new episode every single day. StoryLearning® is based on the idea that rather than studying with textbooks, learning with stories is a much more natural way to improve. It allows you to build your vocabulary fast, and because you learn the language in context, you master grammar more easily.