Short Stories in Italian for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Italian the fun way! (Foreign Language Graded Reader Series)

This is a great book to expand your knowledge of Italian. You would need at least 18 months of prior study to benefit from this book. Some great stories to read.

Stories are interesting and it definitely supports learning a language. I do recommend!

Overall a really good aid for me, a beginner who has done some work previously (so working towards A2 on the language levels). First the negatives. The stories themselves are a little dumb and I'm sure that they could have been made stronger without loosing the energy or easy-read aspects. That's about it for negatives. On the positive, I've enjoyed reading and re-reading them. They're well organised and structured for a learner, just the right level to stretch and develop me but without putting me off or making me feel it was a chore. Nice short chapters and move along at pace. Initially i got the book, then I moved on and got it on Audible too. Initially i used the two independently and it was really useful having read the stories once to be able to work on my listening comprehension whilst travelling or just going for walk. Now i've moved on to listening and reading at the same time to improve my pronunciation. They have definitely helped broaden my vocabulary and to re-inforce some the learning I'm doing. Best seen as an additional resource, sometimes you don't want to study but do want to keep moving with your language learning. You can do some of that on the internet, but this is definitely a good extra way of keeping moving forward. Enjoyed it enough to buy the second in the series for Christmas !!!

I'm a complete beginner this is a really good book to start reading because you don't know everything it gets the words and sentences in your brain quick and Swift all start it also the stories are quite fun and not too serious and they're not too long so you can read on the bus to train or even whilst in the loo

I am a year into a Beginners Italian class and think this is great. Well structured to give short bursts (10-15 mins) with plenty of new / explained vocab, and much more engaging than a textbook. I will be looking for more...

Perfect book to follow-up and practice my Italian. Each chapter is designed to be read multiple times to learn the vocabulary and grammar

Short Stories in Italian is an excellent book for beginners as they work to learn Italian. They are well written, engaging and clear. They engender a real feeling of making progress. Highly recommended.

Very helpful for new learners

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.

Muy bueno. Al ir en inglés e italiano practicas los dos idiomas.

les histoires sont sympas à lire et en plus il y a des questions sur le texte que demander de plus

These are fun short stories to read and it’s nice that they have a short quiz at the end of each chapter

Very nice!