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Spanish Short Stories for Intermediate Learners: Eight Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way!

ISBN- 978-1540407351

ISBN- 1540407357

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Introduction

This book is a collection of eight entertaining short stories in Spanish. The stories are written for intermediate learners, equivalent to B1-B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). They are a fun and effective way to improve your Spanish and grow your vocabulary.

Reading is one of the best ways to improve your Spanish, but it can be difficult to find suitable reading material. Many books are difficult to understand. They contain advanced vocabulary, and are so long you can feel overwhelmed and want to give up.

If you recognise these problems, then this book is for you. There are many kinds of stories in the book, such as science fiction, fantasy, thriller, and crime. As you begin to read, you will forget that you are reading in a foreign language, and enjoy discovering different worlds in Spanish!

There are many useful features in the book that help you read more effectively. For example, after each chapter there is a summary of the plot and a set of comprehension questions, so you can check important details of the story. You will learn a lot of natural Spanish and improve quickly.

As an intermediate learner of Spanish, you might be looking for an entertaining challenge. Or maybe, you have been learning for a while and simply want to enjoy reading. Either way, this book is the biggest step forward you will take in your Spanish this year.

So, sit back and relax. It's time to let your imagination run wild and enter a magical Spanish world of fun, mystery, and intrigue!

Table of Contents

About the Stories

A feeling of progress is important when reading in a foreign language. Without this, you have no motivation to keep reading. The stories in Spanish Short Stories for Intermediate Learners have been designed to give you this feeling of progress.

First, each story has been kept short and broken down into chapters. This gives you the satisfaction of being able to finish reading what you have started, and come back the next day wanting more. It also reduces the feeling of: “ There is so much I don ’ t know in Spanish! ”

The Spanish in the stories is rich and varied, but still understandable for intermediate learners. Each story is written in a different genre in order to keep you entertained. There are plenty of dialogues, giving you lots of useful spoken Spanish words and phrases to learn. There is also a variety of tenses from one story to the next, so you can practise common verbs in past, present, and future forms. This will make you a more confident user of Spanish, able to understand different situations without getting lost.

Spanish Short Stories for Intermediate Learners supports you with some special learning features. There are regular summaries of the plot to help you follow the story and make sure you have not missed anything important. You will find comprehension questions at the end of each chapter to test your understanding of what has happened in the story and encourage you to read in more detail.

Spanish Short Stories for Intermediate Learners has been created to give you the support you need, so you can focus on reading, learning, and having fun!

How to Read Effectively

Reading is an important skill, and in our mother tongue, we read in different ways. For example, we might skim a news article quickly in order to understand the main events. Or, we might scan the pages of a bus timetable looking for a particular time or place. If I gave you a children ’ s book to read, you would turn the pages quickly. On the other hand, if I gave you a contract to sign, you would read each word carefully.

However, when it comes to reading in a foreign language, research tells us that we lose most of our reading skills. We stop using skills like skimming and scanning to help us understand difficult texts. Instead, we simply start at the beginning and read every word, one after the other. Inevitably, we quickly become frustrated by difficult words.

As long as you are aware of this, however, you can use some simple strategies to avoid this trap and become a better reader.

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You are reading this book because you like the idea of learning Spanish with short stories. But why? What are the benefits of learning Spanish with stories, instead of with a textbook? Understanding this will help you improve your reading.

When you read books for fun, it is known as extensive reading. This is very different from how you might read Spanish in a textbook. Your textbook contains short dialogues, which you read in detail. The aim is to understand every word. This is known as intensive reading.

Here is another way to look at it. Textbooks give you grammar rules and lists of vocabulary to learn; they try to teach you. Stories show you “ real Spanish ” ; they do not try to teach you. In fact, both kinds of reading are valuable and you need them both in order to learn a language effectively.

Spanish Short Stories for Intermediate Learners , however, is designed to help you with extensive reading. As you read and enjoy the stories, you will gradually improve your understanding of how Spanish works. If you often study with textbooks, this book will be a breath of fresh air!