Today you will learn to read Spanish the easy way while enjoying yourself. One of the greatest challenges that readers looking for Spanish short stories have is finding the right reading method with the right stories. The purpose of practicing Spanish by reading is to reinforce what you already know and learn more while enjoying yourself with a good story.
But this process might become boring if the stories contain too much basic small talk and very little structure. On the other hand, you could have the perfect story in front of you, but it wouldn’t do you any good if you don’t have a good reading system to guide you in the reading process.
For this reason, we offer a new method of reading, with fun and exciting stories for you to enjoy. With conventional reading techniques, you usually have to learn a big list of vocabulary before you begin reading the stories.
With our reading system, instead of going through a long and tedious list of words, you simply click on the words you don’t understand within the paragraph you’re reading and the English translation will appear immediately above the word you selected. In other words, you get your vocabulary right on the spot.
This technology is available through Babaloo, our learning center. There you will practice each paragraph before reading the entire story in the book.
Each paragraph contains an individual audio so you can practice it over and over again if you feel the need to do so. This cannot be done with an MP3 audio of the entire story… something that most conventional reading methods offer.
Our web-assisted method also offers you the parallel text option so you can read in Spanish and consult the English translation if necessary.
This book is recommended for beginners and intermediate learners who have had some previous reading experience, or beginners with no previous reading experience who are willing to take a few basic Spanish classes (Free of charge). If you have zero knowledge of Spanish, please read the note from the publisher (Look inside).
In this edition you will find…
Individual audio for each paragraph so you can go at your own pace and practice as much as you need to. Parallel text (Spanish-English) for you to conveniently consult the translation of any given phrase right on the spot. Long paragraphs are sectioned by color fonts, making them easy to assimilate. Interactive vocabulary consultation. Just click on any word you need to translate as you read the story and the English translation will appear automatically above the Spanish word you’re consulting… No need for long, tedious vocabulary lists. American-style format. The dialog goes on quotation marks, and it’s introduced with dialog tags (He said, she said, etc.) just like any novel written in English. Five short stories written in Latin-American Spanish. A Comprehension Test at the end of each story. Lots of humor and surprises (Plot twists). Look no further! Get a copy of Basic and Easy Spanish Short Stories right now and expect positive results that will stay with you for a lifetime.