Learn Spanish with Stories for Beginners

10 Easy Short Stories with English Glossaries

By: Claudia Orea

Narrated by: Abel Franco, Lucia Bodas

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

An Effective Way to Improve Your Spanish Reading and Listening Comprehension Skills

This book makes use of simple yet entertaining stories to help you learn Spanish. By covering a diverse range of grammar structures and vocabulary, and supplementing it with audio, you can improve your reading and writing skills, and even practice your listening and pronunciation.

Improve Your Listening Skills in Spanish

With the help of the audio, you can give your listening skills a boost as well as practice your pronunciation. Recorded by a professional voice talent from Madrid, Spain, the stories are narrated using a standard Spanish voice at a slightly slower speed than how actual Spanish people speak.

This will allow beginners and low-intermediate learners to grasp the narration properly. Extra care has also been given to the recording of the audio to ensure a pleasurable listening experience for learners.

Learn Useful Vocabulary for Everyday Situations

• Movies or cinema
• Ordering in a restaurant
• Family
• Daily routine
• Crime and police
• Physical description
• Vacation/holiday
• Seasons/weather
• Chores
• Quantity

The stories are written using a wide range of vocabulary and diverse grammar structures. The carefully selected combination of dialogue and descriptions is especially suited for beginner to low-intermediate level learners.

What to Expect from This Book

Ten entertaining stories about everyday themes that are short enough to hold your attention, but long enough to make you feel a sense of accomplishment and progress after finishing each one.

• A total of 1,000 new Spanish vocabulary words including some colloquial terms spoken in everyday Spanish conversations
• Highly improved listening skills in Spanish, thanks to the audio material provided

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2016 Frederic Bibard (P)2016 Frederic Bibard

Great way to learn natively

The fact that the pronunciation was so well integrated into the design of the audiobook was one of the things I loved about this audiobook. I find that that is one of the most difficult parts of learning another language and to have it readily available is great. It increased my interest in the language simply by letting me understanding it better. I know what parts of the language interest me more thanks to this audiobook. The information that is presented in exactly what you'd expect from a language book, but it's also so much more with stories that stick in your mind to help you remember key vocabulary words. I wouldn't change a single thing about it. I highly recommend this audiobook to anyone looking to learn a language quickly and efficiently.

Great Audiobook for Spanish Beginners!

Would you listen to Learn Spanish with Stories for Beginners again? Why?

Yes. Because this will be very helpful since I'm studying Spanish

What was one of the most memorable moments of Learn Spanish with Stories for Beginners?

The stories. They are very entertaining and very easy to understand. This will help me in Spanish sentence construction for beginners like me.

What about Abel Franco and Lucia Bodas ’s performance did you like?

Their narrations made us feel like we are native Spanish speakers as well. Very well delivered!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes. Very much!

Any additional comments?

will recommend these books to my friends!

Time to learn Spanish in a fun way!

I really like this audiobook because it is an innovative learning, I can learn through stories by listening and reading. It’s authentic and pronunciation is so good. I also feel like I’m reading a Spanish storybook!

The book is really interesting, it has 10 different short stories that use common or basic vocabulary that a beginner should know. It’s a fun way of learning rather than just knowing the word. It also has Q&A session at the end of each story which makes me feel like I really want to understand the story because I want to test my own understanding.

Besides, the meaning of the vocabulary is placed not only at the end of the story like what a normal book would do. The author display the vocabulary in the middle of the story which makes it easier for me to refer to the meaning of the words.

I have been trying to learn Spanish language by myself and I even watch Spanish movies because I am trying to get the accent and tone of speaking but it is very very difficult because they speak so fast! This is definitely not my first learning material but I think this audiobook is very helpful and I highly recommend it to beginners like me or even to intermediate. Especially because they pronounce it very clearly. And the first part, he speaks slowly which allows me to understand what he is saying and practice to speak together. But the speed will increase in the next part because the narrator speaks in regular speed, which gives a little challenge but that’s the fun of learning languages!

I hope this audiobook will help you too!

Helpful book for learning and improving listening

Would you listen to Learn Spanish with Stories for Beginners again? Why?

I would listen to it again for revision and betterunderstanding of the stories and vocabulary used in them.

What about Abel Franco and Lucia Bodas ’s performance did you like?

It sounded authentic and helped me to immerse myself in the languageenvironment.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No,because it's a language learning book. I listened to parts from it ona daily basis, sometimes coming back to the stories I alreadylistened.

Awesome, Perfect for Spanish Language Enthusiasts

Any additional comments?

"Wow!" was the only word I was able to say after I've first listened/read the audiobook...very interesting. Although the narrator was a bit fast, but overall it was really good. I learned a number of new Spanish words and phrases. The way it was conceptualized was appropriate for beginners like me. Listening to it is also a great help to learn the right pronunciation.

Simple & Interesting Read

Any additional comments?

I found the book to be simple in the descriptive story that is being told.

I have studied Spanish for few years and listening to this story allows me to identify words that I can easily translate into Spanish. The narrator does a great job of enunciating each and every word and he goes at a moderate speed, which is helpful. However, I feel for beginners it should be at a bit slower speed.

It's also an entertaining story that has real possibility of capturing learners curiosity and minds.

New way of learning your favourite language

Any additional comments?

Okay, today I was searching on Audible for something to read "hear" about the Spanish language as my language of choice for learning and the best way for me is to learn by myself.And suddenly I saw this title"Learn Spanish with Stories for Beginners"and got me interested I never used to learn some language with listen to stories and it was a fun and innovative way of learning something new.The stories are interesting to listen and the narrators also have a good vocal abilities (especially the male vocal sounds like someone narrated a "telenovela" to me), I read some say they sound "BAD" yes i can agree but I know Audible or any other Online Service is put too much "Compression" on vocals it all came from "Loudness War" (I don't want to offend somebody here with this statement just to point).The stories are great well thought and for Beginner like me the PDF file I downloaded is the best tool to follow the stories with ease and as I mentioned the stories with the male narrator get me in the state as i "Watch" some telenovela.And for the last thought, I love the vocabulary it is great for beginners to "hear" the words pronounced definitely, I learn something here!So all in all great idea from the maker I hope there are more languages translated like from where it came to the title:"New way of learning your favourite language".

Such a good book

If you could sum up Learn Spanish with Stories for Beginners in three words, what would they be?

It was amazing. I learnt a lot.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Learn Spanish with Stories for Beginners?

We do like the fideuá

Which scene was your favorite?

Cine

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I liked the scenarios

Good resource for listening/speaking

Any additional comments?

This would be an excellent addition to written resources for learning Spanish. The stories incorporate vocabulary words and sentence structures useful for a beginner or an intermediate student who hasn't studied in a while. The length of the stories allows for a more immersive listening experience, allowing students to get a feel for the intonations and improve their speaking and listening skills, hence why it would be useful to round out the experience of someone who is self-taught and who is better at reading and writing Spanish than speaking and listening.

A fun and easy way of learning spanish

What did you like best about this story?

The stories are very interesting and great examples of every day vocabulary and life experiences.

Any additional comments?

It's the perfect book to learn how to pronounce correctly since the narrators speak perfect Spanish. Pronouncing correctly is very important when learning a language and this is an effective way, also thanks to the slow pace of the narrators it's easy to understand.