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Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners
- Listen for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way!
- Narrated by: Javier Marzan
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
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 Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you, and give you a feeling of progress when listening.
What does this book give you?
· Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making learning fun, while you gain 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 listening 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 will entertain you, while at the same time allowing you to benefit from an improved range of vocabulary and a better grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners will make learning Spanish easy and enjoyable.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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"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!" (Barbara Oakley, PhD, author of New York Times best seller A Mind for Numbers)
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- Eoin Maher
- 11-01-21
Excellent way to learn and improve
Very good. Enjoyed it a lot, although I suggest speading it up to about x 1.45 to better train your ear.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-02-24
Excellent practice for learning Spanish
Various different stories in Spanish - mystery, sci-fi, travel, romance. Perfect for getting familiar with the language. Uses various tenses - past, present, future - so not convinced it's beginners, more elementary/pre-int. I enjoyed listening to it at .75 to help me sleep at night.
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- Chris
- 18-12-23
Really good, some stories better than others, same stories in different languages
This is an excellent resource for learning especially if you follow the instructions not to look up the vocabulary straight away.
because it's designed to cover different people's interests sone stories weren't as enjoyable as others.
I'm also learning French and was disappointed to find out that the books in different languages all have the same stories in them.
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- Mister Peridot
- 01-05-21
Recommended
This is a collection of quite interesting stories that ring true and introduce a good deal of vocabulary. They are not that easy though. I found it necessary to study the corresponding text in printed form for some time before listening to the audio. And this required much use of a dictionary as the dictionary included in the back of the book is far from adequate. But that gripe apart these are good stories for a student to work on as long as you understand that as a beginner you have no chanceof understanding these stories at an initial hearing.
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- Alice Sowerby
- 22-01-23
Good comprehension practice for intermediates
I got this audio book after completing the Paul Noble beginners audio course. My level of understanding was not good enough to properly follow the story. I then took the Paul Noble intermediate audio course. I was then able to understand enough of the story to use it as a godless comprehension practice and learn some new vocabulary. The accompanying pdf has story summaries and questions in Spanish which I used to practice reading aloud and work on my accent.
The stories are a bit silly but I found them funny and entertaining. The narration is clear and being able to slow it down helps. Listening to the stories many times over helps to improve comprehension.
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- Victor
- 02-08-24
Super Helpful for past tense
Listened at .7x. I'm around B1 fluency. immediately my comfort between using pretérito, pasado imperfecto and present perfect improved in conversation. definitely recommend. won't help much with future tenses though
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- miss j c willmore
- 10-11-20
Enjoyed and learnt
really enjoyed, listened a couple of times to some for greater understanding and acquired new words and phrases.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-02-24
Good for repetition due to variety of stories
Simultaneously listened to and read this book for 30hours in February. Recommend it to anyone learning especially as the stories are short so don’t get boring like most normal books when reading over and over again.
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- M. Hellen
- 20-08-20
Really enjoyable stories
This is the best audiobook of short stories I have come across so far. The stories are actually really interesting and fun and had me gripped (except one that I had trouble understanding, but I was listening whilst doing things and I really should have looked up a word that kept cropping up! I probably wasn't concentrating enough anyway tbh). There is a wide selection of subjects to the stories - historial, sci-fi, supernatural etc - but they each kept my interest up throughout. I was actually disappointed when I got to the end! The narration was very clear so all words could be made out and the language used was just right for my standard (not beginner). I doubt these would work for complete beginners, but I have been learning for 5 months quite intensively and these were perfect. I have bought one of Olly Richards' intermediate books and will be looking for anything he does now. Audible is such a minefield of fake reviews that it is hard to find decent material so I hope this review will be helpful.
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- Ms V Fairless
- 17-01-22
Errors
I have the book and audiobook. There are differences, however, the first audiobook story has errors...Daniel takes a bus and falls asleep and awakes in Barcelona, and the rest of the story then doesn't make sense as the book version he awakes Valencia, which makes far more sense of saying that he is far away from Barcelona.
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