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)

Really enjoying the book very useful for language learning.

I did DuoLingo for some time to learn the very basics and this book was an excellent tool for the next step of my learning. The stories are just the right length to follow. I would read a chapter once to understand the gist then revisit to learn all the words and phrases I didn’t understand. I have learnt so much from this book and I am just about to start the second book in the series. I highly recommend it.

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.

Find it hard to learn vocabulary but put in the context works for me. Plus you remember high frequency words very fast.

It's good but for beginners? I don't know I opened it and didn't have a clue where to begin. I think that's just on me though, I need to know a lot more before trying this. I can see it's a good book I just have to be patient.

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.

Easy to read with highlighted vocabulary- all in Italian apart from the introductory notes on how to us3 the book. I thought I had bought an intermediate level book, having already having an intermediate Spanish volume, but was surprised to find it was for beginners. However, it is still useful, though quite an easy read if you some knowledge of Italian.

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 !!!