Lingo Mastery - Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Spanish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!

So you want to learn Spanish? Thats awesome, reader. Spanish (or Castilian) is a Romance language spoken by over 570 million people around the world, and is recognized as an official language by the European Union, the Organization of American States, the Union of South American Nations, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, and many other organizations. It is also, impressively, the second most spoken native language in existence, after Chinese.

The Spanish language originated in the Castile region of Spain around the 9 th century, and slowly evolved into what it has become today with heavy Latin influences as well as Greek ones. Interestingly enough, it is also one of the few languages spoken natively on four different continents (North America, South America, Europe and Africa), and has a heavy influence within the Philippines (Asia).

It may be important to note at this point that having a basic to intermediate level of Spanish may be an important tool for your professional future, as well as opening several doors for you on your resume if you feel the need to either migrate or work in a multi-cultural environment. Spanish speakers will usually appreciate your effort in having partially or fully learned their language, and they will happily collaborate with you in solving your doubts.

What the following book is about

Weve written this book to cover an important issue that seems to affect every new learner of the Castilian tongue a lack of helpful reading material. While in English you may encounter tons (or gigabytes, in our modern terms) of easy and accessible learning material, in Spanish you will usually and promptly be given tough literature to read by your teachers, and you will soon find yourself consulting your dictionary more than youd want to. Eventually, youll find yourself bored and uninterested in continuing, and your initially positive outlook may soon turn sour.

Theres something you must understand: Spanish isnt an easy language, but it isnt a horribly difficult one either. You just need to make an effort in identifying your flaws and weaknesses, and having purchased this book is a definite good start.

Our goal with this book will be to supply you with useful, entertaining, helpful and challenging material that will not only allow you to learn the language but also help you pass the time and make the experience less formal and more fun like any particular lesson should be. We will not bore you with grammatical notes, spelling or structure: the book has been well-written and revised to ensure that it covers those aspects without having to explain them in unnecessarily complicated rules like text books do.

If youve ever learned a new language through conversational methods, teachers will typically just ask you to practice speaking. Here, well teach you writing and reading Spanish with stories. Youll both learn how to read it and write it with the additional tools well give you at the end of each story.

How Spanish Short Stories for Beginners has been laid out

We want to help you read stories and understand each aspect of the language in the most entertaining way, so weve compiled a series of tales which will each cover a particular tool of the language. Each story will tell a different tale involving unique, deep characters with their own personalities and conflicts, while ensuring that you understand the objective of the particular language device in Spanish. Verbs, Pronouns, Nouns, Directions, Time and Date; all of it will be covered in this Basic-level book for Beginners. At no point will we introduce concepts too difficult for you to grasp, and any complicated vocabulary will be studied at the end of each story.

The stories have been written in a way that will allow you to:

a) Read the story without any distractions, paying attention solely to the plot of the tale without making special emphasis on distracting elements.

b) Interpret the tale you just read with the use of two summaries one in English so that you may ensure you understood what the tale was about and can go back to it if there was something you didnt understand properly; and another in Spanish for when you start to dominate the language a bit better, allowing you to create your own summary for the book later on.

c) Understand the related terms expressed throughout the story with the use of a list of vocabulary that will give you important definitions and clear up any doubts you may have acquired.

d) Last but not least: ensure you have understood what youve read by providing you with a list of simple-choice questions based on the story, with a list of answers below if you want to corroborate your choices.

All of this will ensure absolute efficiency in not only reading the stories, but in understanding and interpreting them once youre done. It is absolutely normal that you may find certain terms unknown to your knowledge of the language, and it is equally normal that sometimes you may ultimately not entirely understand what the story is about. Were here to help you, in any way we can.

Recommendations for readers of Spanish Short Stories for Beginners

Before we allow you to begin reading, we have a quick list of recommendations, tips and tricks for getting the best out of this book.

1- Read the stories without any pressure: feel free to return to parts you didnt understand and take breaks when necessary. This is like any fantasy, romance or sci-fi book youd pick up, except with different goals.

2- Feel free to use any external material to make your experience more complete: while weve provided you with plenty of data to help you learn, you may feel obliged to look at text books or search for more helpful texts on the internet do not think twice about doing so! We even recommend it.

3- Find other people to learn with: while learning can be fun on your own, it definitely helps to have friends or family joining you on the tough journey of learning a new language. Find a like-minded person to accompany you in this experience, and you may soon find yourself competing to see who can learn the most!

4- Try writing your own stories once youre done: all of the material in this book is made for you to learn not only how to read, but how to write as well. Liked what you read? Try writing your own story now, and see what people think about it!

One more thing before you start reading the stories. We have made a free video course for you, teaching over useful 200 words and phrases in Spanish. Because its a video, you will find it easy to learn pronunciations and its been narrated with you in mind. You can get it by going to:

Well, with all of that said, we can finally begin with the book after all, we want you to start reading our stories right away.