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Learn Spanish with Stories for Beginners
- 10 Easy Short Stories with English Glossaries
- Narrated by: Abel Franco, Lucia Bodas
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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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.
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- Marius
- 15-06-16
Pdf book
The quality is very good but didn't get the pdf versions of the stories although promised in descr
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- Frequent Buyer
- 03-07-19
The intro claims there is an accompanying text
to the audio story to help you learn, in the “MyLibrary” but this is nowhere to be found. They also say if you can’t find it then to email:
Contact@talkingfrench.com (learn spanish vol 1 )
or
contact@mydailyspanish.com
This is for material by Claudia Orea.
A similar set by Frederic Bibard (Spanish Stories for beginners) also uses the SAME contact email.
I got a response from Frederic & the PDF text as promised.
NOTHING from Claudia Orea so far.
Before buying Claudia’s material check that you will receive the text and that someone responds to you.
There is no web link as you might hope for, the cover could have contained one instead of a picture but they chose not to put it there. The audio book description text doesn’t have a link either. Real disappointment
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- Jojo
- 18-02-19
Disorganised recording
I listened to these stories whilst driving and thought the narration was quite clear. I found the Spanish easy enough to follow at a pace that was challenging at times but with a second listen, I was able to follow the story. Each time I listened, I understood more.
The frustrating thing was the lack of any definitive break between when one story ends and the other begins.
There was not even a few seconds pause. This was very difficult to follow when you are trying understand and translate as you listen.
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- Carole
- 24-01-17
Great study tool!
I have a few trips to Spain coming up, so I bought this book to remember my Spanish and to get used to the accent used in Spain, (as I learned my Spanish in Latin America). I like to listen to it on my morning commute, and after some experimentation, I found a method of using it that works for me.
There are ten stories, each about 12 minutes long, one per chapter. The next ten chapters go over the vocab of each story, stopping every few sentences to go over vocab. This is super helpful as I don't need to bother with looking things up in a dictionary.
The way I've found works best is to listen at 0.75x speed to the original story, then skip ten chapters ahead and listening to the version of the story that's interspersed with vocab definitions. Then I listen to the story again at a normal speed.
I like that the stories are about both usual situations and unusual ones (like about astronauts). Would recommend for an intermediate Spanish speaker. So far it feels like my listening skills have gotten better and vocab has improved. I'm glad I found this audiobook because by the time I'm in Spain, I'll be speaking enough to get by!
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