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Italian Short Stories for Beginners: 10 Exciting Short Stories to Easily Learn Italian & Improve Your Vocabulary
- Easy Italian Stories, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Lucia Grillo
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
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Publisher's summary
What is the most challenging thing about learning Italian?
It is finding helpful and engaging listening material that you can actually understand. That is exactly what inspired us to bring out this audiobook.
How is a student supposed to learn when language instructors love providing materials that are tough, expert-level literature with tons of grammar and rules? That style of book for new language learners can be overwhelming, and lead you to flip back and forth between a dictionary and your book constantly! Not an effective use of your time nor the best way to learn.
Is this how children learn their language skills? No.
Enter Italian Short Stories for Beginners. You will find 10 easy-to-listen, engaging, and fun stories that will help you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to improve your grasp of the Italian language.
Improve your comprehension, grow your vocabulary, and spark your imagination with these 10 unconventional Italian short stories! All the stories are narrated using vocabulary that you could easily use in your day-to-day conversations.
The stories are designed with beginner Italian learners in mind. With that said, it is highly recommended to have a basic understanding of Italian to achieve maximum enjoyment and effectiveness of the lessons.
This program is excellent for those who want to get an introduction to the language or brush up on their Italian language skills.
How to use Italian Short Stories for Beginners:
- Each story contains an important lesson in the Italian language, involving an interesting and entertaining story with realistic dialogues and day-to-day situations.
- A summary in Italian and in English of what you just listened to, both to review the lesson and for you to gauge your comprehension of what the tale was about.
- At the end of those summaries, you’ll be provided with a list of vocabulary found in the lesson as well as phrases that you may not have understood the first time!
- Finally, you’ll be given clever questions in Italian, so you can prove that you learned something in the stories.
Even if you have tried multiple times to learn Italian, these short stories will give you the jumpstart you need to finally grasp the language! Act now and buy Italian Short Stories for Beginners and start learning the fun way!
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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- Carl Smith
- 12-08-19
Italian Short was an excellent way to practice
I have limited listening experience with Italian. It's good to hear in Italian with the accents the stories given in this story. It was very helpful in learning to use the language I am learning for proper pronunciation and emphasis.
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- Brandon C. E
- 12-08-19
loved it.
As a language enthusiast, I thoroughly enjoyed these stories; I felt like this was the best way to learn. The stories were interesting and also easy to follow the pronunciation was meticulous which made it possible to learn new words and also understand how to conjugate a sentence. The most effective feature was how all the difficult words were translated and repeated, this helped in learning and memorizing those words and ultimately building a better vocabulary. Overall I felt like this was a great learning experience
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- Laura Hawkins
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Flashcards Included
I just wanted to add that Jessica Muraca reads the vocabulary words at the end of the book in Italian and in English (they're flashcards, I think), so that's an interesting feature to look out for.
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- Real Customer
- 10-23-19
Not for beginners
The verb tenses are not for beginners. The vocabulary is not for beginners.
I am keeping this title to use after I have learned more of the language.
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