Short Stories in Italian for Intermediate Learners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Italian the fun way!

Good stories and easy to read.

Stories engaging. I used the text to improve my overall Italian skills.

Easy to follow and very instructive!

After two years on Memrise and Duolingo, I was ready for the thrills that lie beyond the simple present tense, yet I found myself still too poor in vocabulary and idiom to get far in “La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia.” This book provided a gentle ramp farther up toward the level where I want to be. The stories are very short, and I imagine the reading level is probably “impatient Italian 9-year-old” but the genres are varied, from family reminiscence to sci-fi, western, romance, and comedy horror, so part of the fun is just learning the vocabulary in a new context with every story. I wouldn’t say any of them are truly gripping, but the epiphanies we’re here for are language acquisition related, so the real joy and surprise is when I find myself reading fluently for stretches just as if I were reading in English. I would wholeheartedly recommend this series as a baby step toward reading La Repubblica on your morning commute. The only bilingual feature in this entry is the vocab list. The stories themselves are not fully translated into English. This review refers solely to the print version.

2eme livre dans cette série que j’ai acheté, tres bien pour aider a apprendre l'italien

Sirve muchísimo para el vocabulario y modismos italianos. Bastante practico