Short Stories to Learn Spanish: Vols. 1 And 2

The Short Stories to Learn Spanish Series [2 volumes] offers 89 Spanish short stories for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students, designed to take you from simple to complex grammar structures, on a variety of topics. 

You will find inspiring and motivational stories of people like Oprah, John Roebling, Raoul Wallenberg, Alfred Nobel, Jackie Robinson, and Viktor Frankl, as well as anecdotes on many subjects, ranging from geography...
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The Short Stories to Learn Spanish Series [2 volumes] offers 89 Spanish short stories for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students, designed to take you from simple to complex grammar structures, on a variety of topics. 

You will find inspiring and motivational stories of people like Oprah, John Roebling, Raoul Wallenberg, Alfred Nobel, Jackie Robinson, and Viktor Frankl, as well as anecdotes on many subjects, ranging from geography and nature to history, psychology, literature, philosophy, and general knowledge. 

Research shows that, when learning a new language, students who read for pleasure make the most progress on vocabulary acquisition and are better at understanding grammar structures. Also, by focusing on short texts, you will remain engaged, focused, and motivated when you achieve specific learning goals.

Short Stories to Learn Spanish, Vol. 1: For Beginners and Intermediate Students will help Spanish students from levels A2, B1, and B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) learn or practice Spanish, acquire new vocabulary, and go over the most used grammar structures without even thinking about grammar. These stories have been written mostly in the present, past, and future tenses.

Short Stories to Learn Spanish, Vol. 2: For Intermediate and Advanced Students will help Spanish students from levels B2, C1, and C2 of the CEFR recognize implicit meanings, summarize information, and reconstruct arguments. These stories cover every conjugation of verbs (in the indicative, subjunctive, and imperative modes, both simple and compound tenses), non-personal forms of the verb (infinitive, participle, and gerund), and verbal voices (active and passive).

These texts have been written in plain Spanish, without technicalities or difficult vocabulary that requires continually looking up for words in the dictionary. 

Each story includes useful learning support features, such as comprehension questions, grammar clues, description of keywords, and a review of the verbs used in each story in different tenses.

The book also includes a useful Basic Spanish Vocabulary with the most common Spanish words used in everyday life.

"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things." -- Flora Lewis