12 Stories in Simple Italian for Intermediates

This book is very fun to read! And is incredibly helpful to improve exponentially your fluency in Italian! The author wrote other historical novels only for the Italian public and she is a Native speaker with 14 years of Italian teaching and deep knowledge of Italian culture. From the same author, you can find also "Bat-Shit crazy roommates" and "18 stories in Italian for beginners". This book is considered intermediate and narrates the adventures of the author dealing with a series of bizarre and funny situations in Italy and in New York. The stories are hilarious and keep the reader engaged while learning. The language is simple enough to allow the reader to understand the stories quite easily. The reader will learn the Italian language naturally without almost realizing it! Keep in mind that books written by non-native speakers usually carry mistakes that undermine the correct learning process. However, the Italian grammar and syntax used in this book are 100% correct since the writer is an Italian native with years of experience in Italian grammar teaching. Considering the modest selling price this is probably the best deal you can find on Amazon and on the web! Obviously, every single story in this book has its English translation and Vocabulary for easy comprehension! You can reach an exponential improvement in your Italian fluency by following the easy steps:1) Read the English version of every story so you understand the contest.2) Then read the Italian version. After you read the stories in English and Italian and you understand and learn the new vocabulary you may work on your pronunciation by listening to the audiobook. This is an effective method to acquire progressively an excellent NATIVE SPEAKER pronunciation. You need to repeat the process of listening to the audiobook while reading from the book at the same time, a couple of times until you will be able to listen to the audiobook alone and understand all or almost all of it without the support of the book. At this point, you will notice a very good improvement! If you wish you can repeat the same process with the other two books by the same author. Not only the learning process explained in the book is effective but the stories are hilarious and entertaining! From the story of the children convinced that the priest was putting the babies in the belly of the brides to the story of the crazy serial dater girl flying all over the United States to meet the men she found online, to the craigslist's fake handymen who make disasters instead of repairing things around the house like they promised! All the stories deserve attention for their unique content and literary value. This is an excellent investment to learn Italian by reading the stories in your spare time at school in between classes, at work during breaks, or while travelling by plane!The format of this book make it easy to fit everywhere and access easily to the on-line audio book and other learning tools! Definitely and excellent value for this price!