Short Stories in Italian for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Italian the fun way! (Readers Vol. 1) (Italian Edition)

I bought this while living in Italy for one month, having completed around two months of Duolingo 4-7x a week. So my level was just beyond beginner, and I wanted to experiment with the comprehensible input-only method of language learning. What I found with this book, first of all, is how much fun and how encouraging it was to be able to read, understand, and finish stories. It didn't feel like nearly as much work as the usual textbook method. At the same time, as I got further into the book I found myself recognizing and understanding many more often-used words and phrases used by the locals. After a week or so I even mustered up the courage to have some very basic exchanges in Italian, without ever having taken a test or opened a notebook. This is definitely a fun way to enhance your learning and acquire a natural sense of grammar and gain vocabulary, all the while creating a sense of accomplishment and building your confidence.

Good book to learn new Italian words. Definitely not for beginners. I have an intermediate knowledge of Italian in this book has been challenging but fun. The short stories are interesting and it is definitely much more interesting than memorizing lists of unrelated words. There are simple questions at the end of each story for retention. Excellent book and a great resource to take your Italian to the next level.

Works great if you get the app to go along with it

The book is cute and certainly helpful for beginning readers but contains definite shortcomings and language errors. The scenarios described are not at all realistic for young university students in Europe. Taking a taxi and staying in a hotel would blow through their budget in one day. Take a bus to find a place to eat in Rome? You have to be kidding. There are so many choices literally everywhere within walking distance in Rome that choosing becomes the problem. And, poor Giulia is timid and shy. A bit sexist to sexist to say the least. Ok. All in fun, but not using subjective after “Mia sorella non sa dove sono”. Well, not all Italians follow grammar rules, but “Adesso siamo a mangiare qualcosa (p.24). No, no native Italian speaker would ever say that. My conclusion, it is a fun book with definitely strange Italian at times and written by someone not of the Italian culture.

These are fun short stories to read and it’s nice that they have a short quiz at the end of each chapter

Love it. Easy to read for beginners.

Learning a language is so fun and this book makes it easy. I throughly enjoyed this book.

If you started learning the beautiful language of Italian, this is a great beginner book for you! This book starts with stories containing relatively easy Italian words and progresses to a bit more challenging ones. I would 100% suggest reading it the way the author recommends, which is by reading it in Italian even if you struggle, so you can use hints surrounding the words to see if you can create a subconscious connection with that word. Read it once or twice in Italian to try and figure it out and then read it in English to see if you got the main plot right! An extra tip would be to highlight words that might seem too long or complicated for you, so you can remember to link them to the English counterpart after!

La progression est parfaite! Le seul fait de lire des histoires courtes comme celle-ci, nous permet de sortir des méthodes classiques principalement accès sur le dialogue (on peut penser à l'excellente méthode Assimil). Ici, l'approche est bien différente. Il s'agit surtout de nous habituer peu à peu à la formulation littéraire d'une langue. Ce n'est pas une méthode d'apprentissage à part entière (avec ses explications grammaticales traditionnelles), mais bien de courtes histoires, aux tournures de plus en plus complexes, aux vocabulaires de plus en plus fouillés, qui vont nous pousser, sans même nous en rendre compte, à assimiler une écriture livresque, une écriture soutenue. Comme je le disais au début de ce commentaire, la progression est parfaite.

Good book for learning through dialogue. I would rate this just above beginner level on the difficulty scale. The most difficult of words are presented to you again at the end of each reading which is fantastic. The stories are easy to follow along and surprisingly interesting. This is the first time buying a book from this author - I wasn’t crazy about the error in one of the questions at the end of the first chapter - the answer is not accurate for question 5. I sent a msg to the author on LinkedIn to see if maybe I got something wrong with my interpretation of the question/answer, they read it but did not respond. I showed it to a few italian family members and they agreed that it didn’t make sense. So I was kinda thrown off a bit after the first chapter but whatever, I will continue buying books from this author.

Very good book for beginners on A1 level

Very nice!

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