Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners (Teach Yourself, 1)

I am at the A2 (advanced beginner) level in Duolingo. This book was a good match with my ability. I still had to look up words and colloquial phrases, but it was a good experience overall.

i got this for my sisters boyfriends birthday hes read it several times over its great for learning

This is a useful book, and the learning method is solid. Overall, I enjoyed reading it, and it definitely expanded my vocabulary.However, there are a couple of things that could be better. First off, the book is entirely too European—which is an issue because most Spanish speakers in fact do not live in Europe. To illustrate, the use of the vosotros form was annoying and unhelpful (you will never hear this in Latin America), and the regular use of coger was hilarious at times but always ill advised. (It generally carries a dirty meaning in Mexico and elsewhere). Finally, the stories often did not have satisfactory resolutions; it was like the writer just gave up at the end of them.Overall, this book is very useful, but some minor edits would make it great.

I have been studying Spanish for a while now, so I decided to order this book to test my progress. I was pleased to know that I am in fact learning, but of course I have a way to go. I feel that this book will help with recognizing new nouns and with conjugating verbs. I like the way there a words in bold that you can reference to translation in order to help with context clues.

I've bought several books in the "StoryLearning" series, and I am one very happy customer! Ollie Richards speaks eight languages and has figured out how to teach people serious about wanting to learn foreign languages. The stories are written in such a way that children, youth and adults can enjoy them - no more relentless focus on grammar drills or endless lists of vocabulary. It sounds odd, but as you read, you realize that you "know more" about your target language than you ever imagined. It's about language acquisition, rather than language learning, and Mr. Richards knows how it's done. I bought his books n French, got to an unexpectedly good level, relocated back to the US and decided Spanish would be of more use to me in the U.S. I have no doubt that I will level up to a solid level of Spanish very quickly, and I recommend these books for language acquisition above any other books I've found!

The first story I understood a lot of. A little annoying putting the new words at the end of the story. Second story seemed like a pretty big leap forward in difficult from the first. Definitely doable but reading the story then learning the meaning of the words seems the more difficult way to organize the book.

Great supplement for intermediate Spanish learning.

It's a great idea for a book. The problem is it's written in Spain spanish and not latin american spanish.