Spanish Short Stories for Beginners Volume 2: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Spanish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Spanish Stories)

Always encouraging readers to continue their learning experience with Lingo Mastery, this new book continues the goal to make Spanish more accessible to a wider population. In the Introductory Note the goal is stated well: ‘Beginning to learn a language is never easy. There is a certain difficulty in advancing from one level to another…The Spanish tongue, called Castilian, is a Romance language spoken by over 570 million people across the globe and around four different continents (North America, South America, Africa and Europe), and is known as the second most spoken native language in the world after Chinese! These facts alone should be sufficient reason to start learning the language today....Castilian isn’t like English, either, so ensuring you find quality translations and proper, grammatically correct content can also be a challenge. We’ve created this book with the purpose of supplying you with efficient, helpful fun and of course, challenging material that can keep you entertained while teaching you important lessons on the language…’In this Volume 2 of Spanish short stories, each of the twenty stories follows the pattern Resumen de la historia, Summary of the story, Vocabulary Questions about the story, and Answers. Or as the authors state, ‘Each story will tell a different tale involving unique, deep characters with their own personalities and conflicts, while ensuring that you understand the objective of the particular language device in Spanish. Verbs, Pronouns, Nouns, Directions, Time and Date; all of it will be covered in this Basic-level book for Beginners. At no point will we introduce concepts too difficult for you to grasp, and any complicated vocabulary will be studied at the end of each story.’An example, in Story 7 Los Juegos Olimpicos – The Olympic Games - the story (translated for demo) ‘The Olympic Games are about to begin: this event which takes place every four years and which captures the attention of so many people and unites the world in an incomparable way; all the participants have the immense opportunity of taking glory back home and making their nation proud, as well as making millions of viewers happy. Around the world there will be people of all countries and social circles watching, and with this something becomes evident: events like the Olympic Games unite humanity in one important fight without violence and allow us to find peace, I only briefly.’ This is but one of the well-written stories with the summary in both Spanish and English and the task of this tale is Vocabulary (very well defined) and a series of questions about the story written in Spanish with the answers likewise in Spanish.The stories vary, as do the lessons taught. This is a very fine introduction to Spanish, appropriate for all age levels, and a book much needed at this time in our national status! Grady Harp, October 19

Very cool! Completely in Spanish for native English speakers, with a dictionary of phrases for each chapter for easy to find definitions. You will need an intermediate understanding of Spanish to begin reading this book. Each 'new' phrase is in bold print so you know the definition can be found in the book. This book focuses on common phrases and idioms which can be tough to pick up on when learning another language since they don't translate directly. As someone who learned Spanish soley from (dozens of) books, CDs and movies and now teaching my (8yr old) son, I think this is very valuable. The stories are fun, I think they would be at a 4th-5th grade plot, which would probably engage any age learner as long as they are at an intermediate spanish level. It's another way to add variety to learning another language and the authors of this book really tried to make sure it could stand on its own as an educational stepping stone.

I really like this book! The stories keep my attention. There are tons of vocabulary in each story. I love that there’s a glossary defining the words at the end of each chapter. It makes it easier to define new words and I’m able to keep reading and learning new vocabulary while strengthening knowledge of grammatical structures. This book feels more intermediate level to me than beginner. Maybe volume 1 is more beginner friendly. It’s a great resource to have!

Each individual story focuses on a different tense. This is extremely helpful to me, because I struggle with the conjugation of verbs. The included vocabulary lists and comprehension test are most helpful.

This book is a bit disorganized in that the stories include some vocabulary words that are defined in order of appearance. Not all words are defined. Some words I don’t know were not defined. In order to go back into the story to look something up it’s difficult to find the vocabulary list section that you are at since the vocabulary words that are defined are not in alphabetical order.

I have seen from others and experienced the value of Audible when it comes to language learning. I get to buy the book from Amazon so I can hold the physical book in my hands and write my own notes about each word or phrase as I choose. While I Speed up, slow down, or play it over and over again. I love these Audible features.

It was a gift and they love it.

Excellent reading and learning the Spanish language book with very helpful translations and fun stories for all ages.

I like how vocabulary is introduced, it allows me to use what I have learned verbally and not translate but learn the proper spelling and grammar of Spanish words in cute stories.

As a portuguese speaker the book sounds very cleary and useful for me because I've been trying to level up English and Spanish knowledge.The author has a notice dedication translating key words to avoid misunderstanding.Highly recommended and for sure I'm gonna buy another books from the same.-----------------Soy hablante de la lengua portuguesa, el libro és muy claro e útil para mi porque yo estoy tentando mejorar mi nível en la lengua inglesa y española.El autor tiene una notable dedicación en la tradúcion de las palabras llaves para evitar desentendimentos.Mucho recommendable y con toda la certeza voy a comprar más libros del mismo.

I absolutely love this book, just easy enough for me to understand the stories with very minimal time looking for translation. And the stories are interesting. Plus I love the summary and questions at the end.

I've previously bought Spanish books to supplement my learning, but I'm really a beginner and the books I bought were too complex for me, I just gave up. Spanish Short Stories for Beginners Volume 2 was perfect for me. If you're new to Spanish, get it, you'll be happy you bought it!

Can't rate these guys strongly enough. Love this way of learning and improving language. So much better seeing words in context in stories than trying to learn them alone. A way to learn that I enjoy and really feel I'm progressing when I finish a story