Soy yo, la mosca (POR SI LAS MOSCAS BOOKS: a collection of easy Spanish stories for beginning language learners)

by Adriana Ramirez

La mosca vive con una familia. Ella quiere hablar con el perro, el gato, el hombre y la mujer, pero ellos no quieren hablar con ella. Ellos la ignoran. Pero la mosca insiste. Ella insiste porque para ella su familia es muy especial. ¿Qué hace la mosca para hablar con su familia?

Esta historia, escrita para principiantes, tiene aproximadamente 3500 palabras. Con apenas 104 familias de palabras diferentes al inglés y 24 cognados, ‘SOY YO, LA MOSCA’, es un libro divertido y fácil de leer, perfecto para los estudiantes de español que están en su primer año.

La mosca lives with a family. She wants to talk to the dog, the cat, the man and the woman but they don’t want to talk to her. They ignore her! But she insists. She insists because her family is very special for her. What does she do to talk to her family? What does she do to have friends?

This beginner story has approximately 3500 words. With only 104-word families and 24 cognates, ‘SOY YO, LA MOSCA’ is a fun and easy book to read, perfect for first year Spanish students.

Reading is an amazing way to study the language. Learn Spanish the easy way!
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What does this book give you?
✓ Helps you expand your vocabulary in Spanish.
✓ Controlled language at your level from the most frequent words to help you progress confidently.
✓ Provides you with lots of exposure to the most common verbs in Spanish in present be, have, want, can, need, look, see, say, speak, listen, think, know, go, fly, arrive, pick up, and move.
✓ Rewarding long story --approximately 3500 words-- for beginners written with only 104-word families and 24 cognates.
✓ A complete bilingual word list of all the words used in the story provided at the end of the book.

80 pages, Paperback

Published September 20, 2020

Reviews

[Chloe (Keefe + Jaren Vallentis's Version!)]

This was a really good book to enhance my Spanish learning, and to learn more vocabulary. The themes and plot were interesting, and it was very repetitive; it was good for what it was, which is a book for people to learn Spanish with.

[Ellen Boyko]

Definitely for beginners. I read as a way to get back into Spanish reading because it’s been a really long time, so I thought I’d brush up on this but it was too easy for me and therefore kind of boring because it was so repetitive. It also was just a gross story about a fly who loves to eat dog poop.

[Dana G]

Nunca pensé que me sentiría identificado con una mosca en una novela, pero aquí estoy. Esta historia es corta, tonta y divertida. Es una buena manera de practicar español a un nivel fácil, con muchas repeticiones y oportunidades para practicar varias estructuras de oraciones.

[Leslie Jones]

My students love reading this book.