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A review by behinana
Italian Short Stories For Beginners: 8 Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Italian the Fun Way! by Olly Richards
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The most important thing you need to know is that the audiobook doesn't match the text.
So if you're looking for the audio+text combo for beginners, you're better off with the dozens of podcasts and youtube channels that offer that combo, a lot of them free.
Lucrezia - https://learnitalianwithlucrezia.blog/ (podcast w/ free transcript)
Barbara Bassi - Italian Stories In Italian (podcast w/ free transcript)
Stefano (youtube w/ italian subs)
Podcast Italiano / Davide (youtube w/ italian subs)
Now, if for some reason you want to settle for second-rate fiction without accompanying audio, here is the review:
The stories are a little strange, they end abruptly, and they always have some mystery that never really grabbed me, but that's better than them being completely boring. They don't feel very Italian (one is pretty much The Hobbit).
The highlighted vocabulary feels a tad random. I can't believe a polyglot actually picked those by hand.
This book is easier than "10 Exciting Short Stories to Easily Learn Italian" by Touri Language Learning, but it is not easier than those sources I mentioned at the beginning.
So if you're looking for the audio+text combo for beginners, you're better off with the dozens of podcasts and youtube channels that offer that combo, a lot of them free.
Lucrezia - https://learnitalianwithlucrezia.blog/ (podcast w/ free transcript)
Barbara Bassi - Italian Stories In Italian (podcast w/ free transcript)
Stefano (youtube w/ italian subs)
Podcast Italiano / Davide (youtube w/ italian subs)
Now, if for some reason you want to settle for second-rate fiction without accompanying audio, here is the review:
The stories are a little strange, they end abruptly, and they always have some mystery that never really grabbed me, but that's better than them being completely boring. They don't feel very Italian (one is pretty much The Hobbit).
The highlighted vocabulary feels a tad random. I can't believe a polyglot actually picked those by hand.
This book is easier than "10 Exciting Short Stories to Easily Learn Italian" by Touri Language Learning, but it is not easier than those sources I mentioned at the beginning.