2024 the best in italian review

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Has your Italian learning hit a plateau?

Are you frustrated by tedious grammar exercises that don’t apply to real-life conversations?

Do you want an effective Italian language learning tool to supercharge your reading and listening skills?

If you said YES to any of these questions, then you’re in the right place!

Many Italian language books don’t work because they are filled with monotonous details and exercises that don’t cater to different learning styles.

And that’s why “Italian Short Stories for Beginners” stands out..

Not only does it provide absolute beginner learners with practical and engaging stories to drastically improve their Italian reading skills, but this Italian book for beginners also offers audio tools to help improve listening and comprehension for the real world!

Here’s what you’ll get:

Easy-to-read, compelling and fun stories targeted at absolute beginners: Simple (but not boring) stories written with the most useful Italian grammar structures and common Italian vocabulary, giving you a feeling of progress when reading.Vocabulary that improves your grasp of the wonderful Italian tongue: Each story includes the most relevant vocabulary and common conversational expressions, designed to improve your reading and listening ability and help you feel at ease when using Italian in real-life situations.Italian audio material: Improve your listening comprehension with the audio files narrated by a native Italian speaker, ensuring accurate pronunciation.Audio with authentic Italian pronunciation: Follow the narrator’s speech and mimic the correct pronunciation, using a natural approach to learn the language in the fastest and simplest way.Two versions of the text to challenge yourself with: One version has a glossary after each paragraph. But if you aren’t confident enough yet to rely only on a glossary, start by reading the dual Italian and English parallel text.Quizzes to assess your comprehension of each story: Do the quiz at the end of each one. This method makes reading fun while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary.Glossary and vocabulary lists: Each story is supplemented with an Italian and English glossary, and vocabulary list recaps at the end of each chapter ensure you won’t forget any new words.Beginner-level content: The stories are mapped to beginner levels, making them perfect for anyone who wants to brush up on their Italian without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated.Practical vocabulary for real-life situations: Learn words and phrases that you can immediately put to use in everyday scenarios, such as introducing yourself, meeting new people, and day-to-day activities.

Even if you think your progress has slowed down or come to a halt altogether, that’s all about to change with “Italian Short Stories for Beginners”!

This book is made with absolute beginners in mind. Thanks to a variety of integrated learning tools, you can go from amateur to expert in no time!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 29, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 309 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1545093903
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1545093900
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 - 18 years
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Reviewer: Ariel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This book is really amazing for adults to get more acquainted with learning Italian
Review: I’m an Italian-American, I know very little Italian, only what I’ve learned from hearing my grandparents speak it occasionally. My native language is English and I know some Spanish, which helps a bit. This book is better than I anticipated. I really like the way it’s set up. There are bolded words/phrases in the stories and after each paragraph there is a glossary for the bolded words/phrases translating them to English. What I did was listened with the audio first then looked through the glossary and listened again. The bolded words/phrases help well with being able to connect what the sentence is saying because you know the context.So, you’re learning from the glossary but you’re also picking up on repeated words and understanding what they mean. By the third time I went back over the paragraph I was basically able to read the Italian myself, which is absolutely incredible! Also, there’s a short multiple choice at the end of each story to quiz yourself. I’ve never seen anything set up this way that helps you learn and comprehend so quickly. Even just going over a paragraph or two while you’re lying in bed at night or waiting at the doctor’s office would be beneficial for you’re learning of another language which is cool. Plus, the audio helps with hearing how it’s pronounced.10/10 would recommend for anyone who wanted to brush up or even begin to learn Italian. Honestly, they should incorporate this method of reading into language classes in school. It probably would’ve been much easier for me to learn Spanish in high school if we had something like this!

Reviewer: Sierra R
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Great Way to "Dive-In" to the Language
Review: This book is excellent for beginners who are excited to learn Italian! I have been looking for different ways to tackle learning the Italian language without having to spend tons of money on college classes and this book is what I needed. It has a total of 10 short stories that are completely in Italian. At first it seems daunting to read, but the book supplies vocabulary words next to each page so that you can understand the main idea of the story as you read. There is also a summary and questions that follow each story in case you missed the plot as you were reading. The book is most useful if you know the basics to Italian sentence structure and grammar or have attended a beginner’s Italian class, but this knowledge is not necessary to start teaching you the Italian language with this book. The best part in this book is that it comes with audios that read each story for you. Probably one of the hardest obstacles I have faced when learning Italian is the pronunciation and the word flow. Just listening to the audios made it so much easier for me to learn how to say the words, instead of just how to read them!Most people say the best way to learn a new language is to throw yourself into the country. Considering not everyone has the will or money to move to Italy, this book is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to take the dive-in approach. I will, definitely, be recommending this book to my friends!

Reviewer: SeiyaKou
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Errors in the book
Review: the authors made an error on page viii, saying “to get SPANISH short stories for beginners for free”, when it’s an ITALIAN short story book. Do they even proofread their own work before publishing?.The vocabulary in the book is useful though. But for my taste, the stories are rather boring, so it’s hard to sit through a story. Won’t be using this author or company again. There are better competitors.

Reviewer: Jeremiah
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Additional Collection!
Review: So, I am not a wide reader and I’m just new in Kindle. Maybe the adventurous side of me and price makes it justifiable too, for $3.99!? Ill just swing off my Dutch Bros for the day! Although I can do some context clues to at least make it closer into my understanding so I decided to put this on my Kindle, since Italian language is one of my bucket list in learning new language.Funny to think that I have “So little” proficiency of this language. I only know Italian by their food.. ITALIAN PASTA! A wide eater myself, sometimes I eat pasta with this for an added effect. Try it!It did not benefit me for now I guess, yet this will be a very good exercising skills for my language exploration! Good thing there’s an audio that you can download, at least I know how to pronounce the word correctly.It was difficult for me to figure out how to understand this book at first, but unlike other books with the same category, the kinda-like-footnote help me construct the sentence. I also like the simplicity and flexibility of how the sentences and spacing are well place altogether, like as if you read a lot of pages in a very short time.Maybe having some drawings on some pages would help, since Im a very visual person and this may help entice imagination. I wish there’s an English version of this!

Reviewer: S. tamburin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: You Have To Know Some Italian To Read This
Review: There are no English translations here other than some of the vocabulary and some of it may be words you already know while the ones not translated are ones you don't know, but all the beginner and intermediate books are similar. If you are a true beginner, this is probably not for you, yet. I have been teaching myself Italian, on and off, for a few years. It is not easy teaching yourself at my age, but I reached the point, finally, where I can read this. I do know a lot of the words that are translated and some that are not, so that is annoying but after buying many books like this I know that anything I can read is hard to find. I really do like the ones that translate a whole paragraph from Italian to English each and every paragraph, but there are not many. Also, know that exact translations don't always work so don't be put off if any Italian to English language book that is not an exact translation word for word. The best thing about this book, though, is you can hear it on your computer or download it to some other devices so you can hone your pronunciation. For someone who is not just beginning to learn, you can figure out the words you don't know by the content. So, since I have many books sort of like this, I can say this is the best and my favorite. I wish I bought it first.

Reviewer: Cliente Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Eu gostei muito deste livro, e recomendo aos iniciantes.

Reviewer: Todd
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I'm not exactly a beginner, but I'd struggle to describe myself as intermediate either. So I was finding it challenging to material pitched at a level that pushed my learning forward without demoralizing me.The stories in this book are relatively easy to read. Using the Kindle App on my phone makes is easier to check (translate) words straight away, plus the layout is very helpful: Read a section and then get a list of vocab translation. At end there is a summary and then a full section by section translation. Plus there is the free audio too which is brilliant. So my routine has become:1. Read story once from start to finish. A bit slow as have to keep checking words and if my understanding is correct2. Do the little Q&A at the end to check I've been paying attention to the story!3. Listen to the audio while going through story a second time. Way faster, but thanks to reading it 1st time, there is a fighting chance of following the narrator.4. Read the full translation to help solidify the finer bits.5. Repeat audio about a million times to try to get it to sink in. Accept I've not learnt to walk yet and move on to the next story!!!

Reviewer: Michel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ottimo per imparare l'italiano

Reviewer: Steven Vaccarella
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: For intermediate learners. Must have a basic fluency on how to read Italian.

Reviewer: Santiago Bautista
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Wow, that's what I was looking for. I have tried both watching cartoons and reading classic novels to improve my skills. The cartoons are super bored and the novels are too complex. This ebook has a great mix of those 2 making the learning easier.