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Short Stories in Italian for Beginners
- Narrated by: Matteo Ghilardi
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
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Short Stories in Italian for Beginners
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Summary
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners.
Short Stories in Italian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you, and give you a feeling of progress when listening.
What does this book give you?
- Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making learning fun, while you gain a wide range of new vocabulary
- Controlled language at your level, including the 1000 most frequent words, to help you progress confidently
- Authentic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability
- Pleasure! It's much easier to learn a new language when you're having fun, and research shows that if you're enjoying listening in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!'
- Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way
Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories will entertain you, while at the same time allowing you to benefit from an improved range of vocabulary and a better grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Italian for Beginners will make learning Italian easy and enjoyable.
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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- Amazon Customer
- 21-01-20
book download does not match audio
The book does not match the audio. You need to purchase the complete book separately.
not clear
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- T
- 10-12-18
Really good, just wish there were transcripts too
Nice and clear, well read. It. Would be great if there were Italian/English transcripts available as well.
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- Sally lodge
- 10-05-21
Narrator is too shouty!
I’ve bought most of Olly Richards’ short stories as I love studying languages.
The stories are basically the same in each language, which I find a great way to learn. However, the narrator in this book, the Italian short stories, seems to like to shout a lot, and it’s REALLY irritating!
I end up shouting back at him and having to turn the volume down!
The stories themselves are ok, but are sometimes a bit bizarre!
When I first listened to them I thought I’d misunderstood the plots in a few of them. As it turns out I hadn’t, they were just a bit odd!!
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- Eve Schulte
- 13-01-19
cheated out of supporting material
The book would have been good but the supporting material did not download and there was no link or helpline to find out how to do it...
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- Cliente Amazon
- 17-12-18
best way to learn languages
loved it. I wish there was a transcript of everything though, not just a summary of the stories.
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- Wonky Donkey
- 10-01-23
Great for learners
I really enjoyed this. Good stories and well paced.
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- Mr S Deeley
- 06-11-23
This accompanies the book which you buy separately
The book is for reading comprehension.
This audio accompanies the printed book.
The printed book is what you need.
The audio makes more sense with the printed book.
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- Paul K
- 28-07-22
Good Stories but narrator terrible
Stories are good, but narrator is quiet and then SUDDENLY STARTS SHOUTING VERY LOUDLY. It startles you and is very annoying
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- Frances
- 24-11-18
Loved it!
The stories are fun with a good variety of themes like pirates and time travel, old kingdoms, spaceships, etc. Each one is divided into 3 chapters. Each chapter is around 10 minutes long.
The narrator's pace is good, not too fast.
The PDF includes a summary of the story, vocabulary and a short test (choose the best answer).
For some reason there's a transcript of only one of the stories, I wish all of them had it, but since the narration is not too fast and understandable, it doesn't matter much.
Would definitely recommend.
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- Tomasz Pludowski
- 06-09-19
MOST TEXT MISSING
This might be a good tool for learning Italian if the PDF did not have most stories missing. The first full page is no. 6, then 7, then 13, etc. The transcript starts with annexes while the actual stories are misplaced.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-22
Olly Richards doesn’t miss
Great as always. I love the stories, they’re easy to follow and I love the vocabulary and review at the end of every chapter. This is the best way to learn a language. Thank you Olly.
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- Edward Montalbano
- 11-08-22
incomplete
accompanied pdf missing most of first chapter.
I would think they would have corrected it during proofing. I would have given a much better review but not alot can be done with a problem like this.
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- charlie
- 14-08-19
A great addition to your language-learning arsenal
Initially, I was a little skeptical about this series of Olly Richards. Nevertheless, listening to his "Short Stories in Italian" was definitely a good investment of my resources. The audio book has a number of short stories and is accompanied by a PDF. The PDF has a summary for each chapter of each of the stories, as well as a short list of new words and their English equivalents. Furthermore, a number of MCQs (as well as their answers) to test the reader's comprehension of the stories is also supplied. Every now and then, a full chapter of a story is provided in text. This is nice, though it would have been much more helpful to simply provide the full text with the audio book, especially that the book is primarily aimed for language-learners.
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- Taras
- 17-10-22
Great. Interesting plots. Words used with a plan.
New words are used not once, bit few times so you may better understand them and better remember them. I listened about 10 times alread, and bought another 5 titles of this author. Very very recomended.
Narator is perfect.
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- Dan W.
- 01-08-19
A few chapters missing but still great
I like these simple, short yet imaginative stories that are at a novice level to read and understand the narration. Unfortunately, I have come to at least 2 missing chapters.
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