Spanish Short Stories for Beginners Volume 2: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Spanish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Spanish Stories) Paperback – October 17, 2019

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'd give it 5 stars, but just like the first book, this is not beginner material at all. If you're a beginner, you won't understand a sentence in the book. I've been learning Spanish for a few years, and between the two "beginner" books, I had to make 900 vocabulary word cards for words I didn't know.Having said that, the stories are good and the vocabulary learned are words with high usage rate.The audiobook is great to go along with it. The reader annunciates well.

Very good book for those beginning Spanish. They've done a great job with highlighting unorthodox vocabulary words. The stories are simple and fun.

The fact that I know so little Spanish that a beginner's book was hard is my fault not the books'. However, I couldn't rate it higher because the title did lead me to believe it was for "real" beginners. However, it gets points for the great end of story vocabulary section and with some Spanish lessons, I believe this book may be able to take my reading comprehension to the next level.

Terrific format to enhance learning through reading. I love the summaries, the word list, the structure of the book, and the stories. I find the level appropriately challenging and the stories interesting. Reading allows me to grow my vocabulary and understand sentance structure more readily by seeing what I am learning in my immersion classes put to real use. I have recommended this series of books to my classmates and teachers in my immersion school in Mexico.

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.

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.