Italian Short

Italian students regularly have to go through the toughest experiences to find proper material that isn’t too tough or too tedious for them - as language teachers, we know this. This is why we’ve created Italian Short Stories for Beginners: Volume 2 to ensure that young and old students at the entry level of learning can have yet another chance to polish their Italian tongue and survive to tell the tale!

This collection of really funny short stories in easy Italian can be used by English native speakers to improve their Italian and gain fluency by having fun with the funny story.

My first husband died under mysterious circumstances. Some might call it bad luck. I call it survival. Now, I’m arranged to marry Antonio Bianchi, heir to a mafia empire and a man who could destroy me if he learns the truth. Antonio is everything I fear: ruthless, unrelenting, and dangerously irresistible. When I crash his bachelor party to uncover what kind of man he truly is, I think I’m a step ahead. But he catches me. And instead of punishing me, he stakes his claim in ways that leave me breathless. He says I belong to him. That he’ll strip me bare until I have no secrets left. ...

I thought my life was perfect. I was reaching my goals one by one becoming more and more successful every day. I really thought I was happy. Until one day Angie fell asleep in my arms, and I finally figured out what real happiness is about. And then she walked away... And now I don't care about the money anymore. I'll do anything to get Angie to come back to me. Small Town in Italy Very Spicy Billionaire Second Chance Happily Ever After One Month Forever is the final book in The Tuscany Nights Series and should be read after One Month Only, book one and One Month More, book two.

Italia Style If you are looking for simple ways to add a little glamour and sexy, effortless chic to your world, this is the book for you. Inside this guide to sexy Italian style and glamor, you will find: Ways to inject that earthy Italian sexiness into your life. How to inject a love of life into your everyday activities Ideas to make your life more glamorous without leaving home or spending more money. You can imbue each moment and each day with the sexiness and glamour with just a few small change. You can infuse your life, home, and wardrobe with that extra something that exudes ...

Learn Italian the fun way! Thirteen creative short stories to learn Italian! Enjoy the process of learning, don’t beat yourself up. You don’t need to listen to boring audiobooks anymore. The captivating nature of story makes learning fun and easy. Let these stories be your guide to Italian culture. This audiobook is loaded with simple sentences, practical scenarios, and common phrases every student of a second language would need to know.

In this action-romance short story, dashing Greek gladiator Leonidas promises his true love he’ll buy her freedom if he wins his own in the Colosseum of Ancient Rome. First he must defeat an opponent he knows he cannot kill. The year is 83AD and it’s nine years since Roman soldiers killed a young Leonidas’s family in their farmhouse outside Athens and consigned him to the life of a gladiator at Ludus Magnus, one of the biggest and best ludi gladiatori, or gladiator schools, in Rome. Since then, he remains undefeated after twenty-five fights and has risen to the top of the gladiator ...

Real Italian people don’t speak like your textbook, so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn natural spoken Italian in the process.

Come possiamo diventare ciò che vogliamo essere? Come possiamo ottenere ciò che desideriamo? Come possiamo usare la forza del pensiero per costruire la migliore realtà per noi? Lo spiegano le parole illuminanti di questo audiolibro che raccoglie alcuni capitoli del testo di Christian D. Larson "Your forces and how to use them" e delinea un percorso verso la scoperta del potere creativo del pensiero.

This audiobook offers a carefully selected collection of 20 short stories in Italian, written specifically for intermediate learners. Each story is brought to life by a native Italian speaker, combining authentic language with engaging narratives that will help you strengthen your vocabulary, improve comprehension, and boost your confidence.

She thought captivity would break her. He never expected she’d be the one to break him. When a brutal mafia war threatens her life, Eden Foster is forced under the protection of Dorian Kane—a man whose name is whispered with fear and respect across the city. In Dorian’s penthouse fortress, walls are meant to keep her safe… and just as surely, to keep her his. But the harder Eden fights for her freedom, the closer Dorian pulls her into his world—and into his arms. In the dangerous game between them, passion flares hotter than betrayal, and loyalty becomes a battleground where ...

They say there are three things you should do at least once in your life: Dance like nobody’s watching. Travel the world. And fall hopelessly in love. I aimed to do all three. I went to Italy to find myself. But he found me.

Some people dream of a gentle retirement enjoying crochet or cricket, but for two sexagenarians, a more cadaverous future awaits… Newly retired teachers, Etta and Dora, take a walk along an old mule track connecting their mountain-top villages, each hoping to soothe the distress she feels at the paltry pension she will receive. Meeting at the fabled Witches’ Cave, they put aside their woes – the naked body of Sibilla, Castelmezzano’s beautiful witch, lies dead at the foot of the old oak tree. Did she plummet from the sky during a Sabbath flight as the superstitious locals are ...

Learn Italian naturally and enjoyably with this engaging collection of Italian short stories for language learners. Whether you're just beginning your journey or looking to strengthen your Italian skills, these stories are designed to help you build your vocabulary, understand Italian grammar in context, and gain confidence listening to authentic texts.

Il 12 ottobre 1492 la Storia dell'uomo fu segnata da un evento epocale. La storia stessa, per come la conosciamo e studiamo, ha in quella data il segno dell'inizio dell'epoca moderna. Ma le terre raggiunte da Colombo, toccate dal primo grande esploratore italiano, furono decretate come "Nuovo mondo" solo qualche anno più tardi, grazie a un altro esploratore, Amerigo Vespucci.

Sevastiano Cantarelli can barely believe Amy Taylor is real. After the lifetime of betrayal he’s experienced, her surprising sweetness is the ultimate threat to his cynical worldview! Unwrapping her innocence was a gift he couldn’t forget...but one he knows it wouldn’t be fair to repeat. Their encounter left Amy exhilarated - and wanted for the first time. She knows that walking away from the commanding Italian is the safest way to keep her heart intact. Yet it’s the one thing she can’t do...because she’s pregnant with Sevastiano’s twins!

Pablo Neruda è il poeta dell'amore e dell'impegno civile, uno dei più importanti letterati di lingua spagnola. Il poeta che "intingeva la penna nel sangue, invece che nell'inchiostro", ha vinto il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura e altri riconoscimenti internazionali, numerosi paesi e istituzioni lo hanno ricoperto di onori. In questo ritratto parleremo di lui al presente, perché la sua vita è da tempo leggenda e la sua poesia è eterna.

Real Italian people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken Italian in the process.

Gaio Giulio Cesare è il personaggio più famoso della storia di Roma antica, nonché uno dei più noti condottieri di tutti i tempi. In suo onore vennero chiamati "Cesare" gli imperatori di Roma, gli imperatori tedeschi e gli zar russi. Eppure Cesare non fu mai imperatore o re. Nel corso degli ultimi, tempestosi anni della Roma repubblicana, fu cinque volte console, pontefice massimo per quasi vent'anni e dittatore.

J. D. Salinger diventò un mito non soltanto per il suo indubbio talento per la scrittura, ma anche per l'alone di mistero che avvolgeva la sua vita privata. Con soltanto quattro libri pubblicati mentre era in vita, si convertì in uno degli autori più amati del XX secolo. Il suo romanzo "Il giovane Holden", pubblicato nel 1951, diventò subito un best-seller e il libro di culto di un'intera generazione.