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  • Spanish Short Stories for Beginners

  • Improve Your Reading and Listening Skills in Spanish
  • By: Claudia Orea
  • Narrated by: Lucia Bodas, Abel Franco
  • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Spanish Short Stories for Beginners

By: Claudia Orea
Narrated by: Lucia Bodas, Abel Franco
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Publisher's Summary

Learn Spanish and improve your Spanish listening skills with these short stories.

Gain a greater vocabulary that you can use immediately, every day. You will add 1500+ Spanish words and expressions to your repertoire through the encounter of descriptive sentences and casual conversations woven throughout the stories.

Sharpen your comprehension of the spoken word by listening to the audio via two native Spanish speakers (male and female voice).

Learn how to pronounce Spanish words properly.

You receive audio in three formats:

  • Slow version of the stories in a male voice which helps beginners improve their pronunciation.
  • Normal speed of those stories in a female voice for intermediate and advanced learners. Train your ears to understand what is being said.
  • Only the vocabulary with enough time to repeat the words with their English translation: audio flash cards!

These stories are perfect for beginners as well as for those who want to brush up on their Spanish language skills.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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  • 24-03-2017

Great as a learning resource!!! I enjoyed it!

I got a lot of enjoyment out of listening to this audio book and found it great as a learning resource to learn Spanish, especially for a beginner like me. It comes with a printable ebook which I found beneficial especially for learning how to spell the words correctly. Although I feel as though I am still at a beginner's level, utilising resources such as one's like these will definitely help and increase my confidence in learning a new language like Spanish. The audio was very clear which made it a lot easier in learning the correct pronunciation.

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Great spanish revision!

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I very much enjoyed this book. I have been learning spanish for 6 months and this was a fantastic way to revise what I had learnt. The spanish is very clear and describes many everyday situations. This is perfect because you can then take various phrases and sentences from the book and use them when you are speaking with others.

The chapters are about 10min long which makes them just the right duration to immerse you in the language while not taking hours and hours of your day. The later chapters also review some of the more difficult words and give you their translation in english. Overall I would highly recommend this book.

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absolutely recommendable

Would you listen to Spanish Short Stories for Beginners again? Why?

I would because it is a very useful tool for understanding the new language

Have you listened to any of Lucia Bodas and Abel Franco ’s other performances? How does this one compare?

It was the first time I've heard a book of them but definitely will do it again in the future

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Due to its long duration, it is a perfect book to listen by parts or chapters, as the stories are not linked between them, you can just listen to a few and then continue the following day.

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The interface is very friendly for the listener and easy to use. As a native Spanish speaker I find that the speakers are very clear and the pronunciation is very easy to understand. A great feature is that the speakers say some difficult words in Spanish and then in English so that the listener can learn new vocabulary in a nice way. Overall, the experience for a non-native speaker must be very constructive, as that's the way I would like to practice a new language as well

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Unsatisfactory

I was enticed by the substantial amount of content spanning several hours. I narrator has what I find to be a hurried and high-pitched tone. The presentation seemed robotic. It took me a few moments to realise that what the narrator was periodically saying which sounded like “burp” was meant to be “verb”. Unfortunately, I found this to be too distracting. It reinforced an already established negative perception of the book.

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Nice stories to refresh your Spanish!

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I greatly enjoyed listening to these short stories. It has been a while since I learnt Spanish and listening to stories like this is a fun way to get back into it.

The speaker was pronouncing words very clearly and I really love the pauses in between sentences. The timing is just great– long enough for me to process the information and short enough for it not to get boring.

I also love how the stories are kept to around 10 minutes per stories, it's perfect when you're on the go, riding your tram to work, or just as a bedtime story. Some stories I have to listen to twice to get the gist out of it, but since it's only 10 minutes, going back is pretty fast.

I would definitely recommend this audio book who is a beginner in learning Spanish. What a great way to learn and immerse yourself in a new language!

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