Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: Learn Latin American Spanish Naturally

Learn Spanish and remember Spanish through the power of story. 10 creative short stories to learn Spanish ENTERTAINING and INFORMATIVE short stories in SPANISH that will captivate your attention. These stories are written predominantly in the present tense with the novice to lower intermediate level speaker in mind. BOOST your VOCABULARY, COMPREHENSION, and CONFIDENCE. What's inside 10 Short Stories that are entertaining and insightful. Chapter previews. Multiple Choice Questions to test your comprehension and the answer key. Useful vocabulary lists at the end of each chapter for your reference and to help you review. A translation below each paragraph. Alternating Text, Parallel text or interlinear text is when your target language, in this case Spanish, is presented with the translation directly to the side or bellow respectively. A text may be presented with the literal translation of every word, or a sentence/paragraph translated into a more colloquial or natural way of expressing an idea. We find this second way to be of more value as it emphasizes patterns which are critical to learning any language and as you will see, most languages have unique idioms. An idiom is a phrase or pattern that expresses something other than its literal meaning like "what's up?" You're asking how someone is doing, not what's above them in the sky. Alternating text has many advantages over a traditional text body. Mainly you are able to very quickly glance down to see the translation of the idea your reading in Spanish. No time is wasted flipping through glossaries and you don't risk losing your place in the book because the translated idea is presented right there on the same page within a glances reach. So, if you're interested in finally picking up Spanish, you're just a click away. Order now.