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Half-price Ebook of the Week, ‘2 giugno 1946’ (A2/B1), £4.99

Here’s a new half-price ebook ‘easy reader’ promotion, one that we do each year at around this time…

Why? The clue is in the title: 2 giugno 1946.

Italian easy readers - 2 giugno 1946 - cover image

June 2nd seventy-nine years back was a historic moment in Italy, and this ebook celebrates that, as well as providing invaluable and enjoyable skills practice for students of Italian.

The level of this one is A2/B1 (pre-intermediate/intermediate). Do check out the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) (which includes a link to the free online audio for the entire story…) to see if the material is right for you.

Bologna, 2nd of June 1946. Italy is slowly recovering from the devastating effects of World War II. A referendum has been organised to decide whether the reborn state will be a republic or continue as a monarchy. And for the first time in history, Italian women can go to the polls! Newly-wed Marcella is so excited at the prospect she barely slept last night. But her husband, Antonio, is unconvinced…

  • .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
  • .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
  • 8 chapters to read and listen to
  • Comprehension questions to check your understanding
  • Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
  • Suitable for students at any level
  • Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Buy 2 giugno 1946, just £4.99! | Free Sample Chapter | History/historical ‘easy readers’ | Catalog

Or find more ebooks, organised by level, then type: A1 | A1/A2 | A2 | A2/B1 | B1 | B1/B2 | B2 | B2/C1 | C1 | C1/C2 | C2

How do I access my ebook?

When your order is ‘completed’ (normally immediately after your payment), a download link will be automatically emailed to you. It’s valid for 7 days and 3 download attempts so please save a copy of the .pdf ebook in a safe place. Other versions of the ebook, where available, cannot be downloaded but will be emailed to people who request them. There’s a space to do that on the order form – where it says Additional information, Order notes (optional). If you forget, or if you have problems downloading the .pdf, don’t worry! Email us at the address on the website and we’ll help. Also, why not check out our FAQ?

P.S.

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Tuesday’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news was published this morning – subscribers will have already received their copy via email.

If you didn’t, why don’t you subscribe, too? Subscribing is free!

Just enter your email on this page and the EIN team will send you three Easy Italian News bulletins each and every week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

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Half-Price Ebook of the Week ‘Roma città aperta’ (B1) £4.99

This week’s half-price Italian ‘easy reader’ ebook has been chosen because today is April 25th, the eightieth anniversary of Italy’s liberation from Nazi occupation (in World War II, for those who slept through history lessons…)

This one is from our ‘easy reader of the classic Italian movie’ series, so it’s the simplified story of the movie. Read/listen to it first, then find the movie online and watch it in Italian! We don’t promise you’ll understand everything, but our ebook will certainly help, besides being valuable reading/listening practice material itself.

Love movies? We have plenty more ‘film easy readers’. Browse them all here (though the others are not half price, sorry!)

Cover image: Roma città aperta

This moving masterpiece of Italian neo-realism, set in WW2 Rome, tells the story of how resistance leader Giorgio, along with his friends, neighbours and family members, fight the Nazi forces occupying their city.

  • .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
  • .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
  • 8 chapters to read and listen to
  • Comprehension questions to check your understanding
  • Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
  • Suitable for students at B1 level and above
  • Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Remember, this week ‘Roma città aperta‘ is 50% discounted, so just £4.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price of £9.99!

Buy ‘Roma città aperta‘ just £4.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Italian Movie Easy Readers | Catalog

Find more ebooks, organised by level, then type: A1 | A1/A2 | A2 | A2/B1 | B1 | B1/B2 | B2 | B2/C1 | C1 | C1/C2 | C2

How do I access my ebook?

When your order is ‘completed’ (normally immediately after your payment), a download link will be automatically emailed to you. It’s valid for 7 days and 3 download attempts so please save a copy of the .pdf ebook in a safe place. Other versions of the ebook, where available, cannot be downloaded but will be emailed to people who request them. There’s a space to do that on the order form – where it says Additional information, Order notes (optional). If you forget, or if you have problems downloading the .pdf, don’t worry! Email us at the address on the website and we’ll help. Also, why not check out our FAQ?

P.S.

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Don’t forget to read/listen to Thursday’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news, will you?

The regular text + audio bulletins are a fantastic, FREE way to consolidate the grammar and vocabulary you’ve studied, as well as being fun and motivating!

Take a look at their website to get started on improving your Italian immediately!

And/or get all three text + audio bulletins of ‘easy’ news emailed to you each week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, subscribe (they really are FREE) by entering your email address on this page and clicking the confirmation link that will be sent to you.

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Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons -20% Offer Ends Soon

A quick reminder about the NativeSpeakerTeachers.com 2025 Spring Sale, which will end at midnight on Sunday April 13th.

Save 20% on one-to-one Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons with a native speaker teacher of the language you’re learning by using this coupon code:

2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off

Ten thirty-minute online lessons with a native speaker teacher would normally cost you £200 (just £20 a lesson).

But with coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off you’ll pay just £160 (£16.00 a lesson), which is like getting two free lessons!

So how exactly do you save 20% on your online lessons or practice with a native speaker of the language you’re learning??

Start by making your selection at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com. There are one/five/ten/twenty/thirty-lesson options, with increasing discounts. Use the ‘Add to cart’ button.

Next, go to your shopping cart and paste in coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off (where it says ‘Apply coupon’), which will reduce the cart total by 20%.

Press the ‘Apply coupon’ button and scroll down to check that the CART TOTAL (not the individual item price) really is discounted by 20%.

Remember: coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off expires at midnight on Sunday April 13th.

Stock up today on the online lesson credits that you’ll need to make progress with your chosen foreign language!

Here’s that coupon code once more:

2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off

Use it here: NativeSpeakerTeachers.com

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This Week Save 20% on Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons

This week our sister website NativeSpeakerTeachers.com is having its 2025 Spring Sale, which means that one-to-one Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons can be had a fifth cheaper than usual.

Use regular online meetings with a native speaker teacher of the language you’re learning to give structure to your self-study, and for that essential practice speaking and interacting!

Save 20% on one-to-one Italian/French/Spanish/German lessons with a native speaker teacher of the language you’re learning by using this coupon code:

2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off

Ten thirty-minute online lessons with a native speaker teacher would normally cost you £200 (just £20 a lesson).

But with coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off you’ll pay just £160! (£16.00 a lesson), which is like getting two free lessons!

So how exactly do you save 20% on your online lessons or practice with a native speaker of the language you’re learning??

Start by making your selection at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com. There are one/five/ten/twenty/thirty-lesson options, with increasing discounts. Use the ‘Add to cart’ button.

Next, go to your shopping cart and paste in coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off (where it says ‘Apply coupon’), which will reduce the cart total by 20%.

Press the ‘Apply coupon’ button and scroll down to check that the CART TOTAL (not the individual item price) really is discounted by 20%.

This promotion ends, and coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off expires, at midnight on Sunday April 13th, so stock up today on the online lesson credits that you’ll need to make progress with your chosen foreign language!

Here’s that coupon code once more:

2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off

Use it here: NativeSpeakerTeachers.com

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From Saturday 20% Off Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons

Learning Italian/French/Spanish/German?

On Saturday April 5th our sister website NativeSpeakerTeachers.com begins its 2025 Spring Sale, which means that one-to-one, online Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons can be had a fifth cheaper than usual.

Use regular online meetings with a native speaker teacher of the language you’re learning to give structure to your self-study, and for that essential practice speaking and interacting!

On Monday 7th April we’ll be emailing you a coupon code, so students of Italian, Spanish, French and German can save 20% on lesson credits purchased at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com.

Watch out for that email with the coupon code on Monday 7th April (or get it from the NativeSpeakerTeachers.com website on Saturday, at around lunchtime CET…)

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Don’t forget – the 2025 Spring Sale on ebooks ends tonight!

Don’t forget – the EasyReaders.org 2025 Spring Sale ends tonight, Sunday March 30th.

Coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off is still valid on EVERYTHING in our online store,  which specialises in ebooks for learning foreign languages, in particular Italian, but also French, Spanish, German and some other languages.

Browse our extensive range of ebooks for learning Italian:

Italian Easy Readers | History/Historical | A Day in the Life of…Italian LiteratureWorld LiteratureItalian Cinema | Opera

Easy Reader Multi-Packs!Italian-English Parallel TextsSelf-Study Workbooks

And/or other languages:

Spanish | French | German

You’ll find FREE sample chapters for just about everything, so you can get an idea of the level and format of the material, and decide what may work best to keep you learning in 2025.

For example,’Easy reader’ ebooks, which are simplified texts and accompanying online audio at 12 different levels!

Or ‘parallel text’ ebooks (simplified texts + translations) at different levels – the language you’re learning along with a line-by-line translation into English.

Depending on the way you prefer to learn, either could be ideal for supplementing a more traditional language course.

An ebook ‘easy reader’ might normally cost £9.99, but until midnight tonight you can use coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off to reduce that by 25%, to just £7.49.

Stock up on the study materials you need today, before the 2025 Spring Sale ends. The next similar promotion won’t be until June…

Italian | Spanish | French | German

Don’t forget, the coupon code to save 25% on the published prices is 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off .

Paste it carefully into the box in your cart, where it says ‘Coupon Code’.

Then presss the ‘Apply Coupon’ button. Finally scroll down to check that your order total has been discounted by 25%, before proceeding – it’s the order total that is discounted, not the item price which you see on your screen, though that amounts to the same thing.

Italian | Spanish | French | German

EasyReaders.org | Ebooks catalog | Cart

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2025 Spring Sale: final 36 hours to save -25% on ebooks

A quick reminder about the EasyReaders.org 2025 Spring Sale, which will end at midnight on Sunday March 30th.

Save 25% on EVERYTHING in our online store, EasyReaders.org, using this coupon code:

2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off

Ebook ‘easy readers’ (simplified texts + audio) or ‘parallel texts’ (simplified texts + translation), either of which are ideal for supplementing a more traditional language course, normally sell at £9.99.

But with coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off you could add four ebooks to your cart and the twenty-five percent saving means you’ll only pay for three!

So how exactly do you save money on your language-learning?

Start by making your selection of ebooks for learning languages, so grammar workbooks, ‘easy readers’ and ‘parallel texts’ from our online store:

Italian Easy Readers | History/Historical | A Day in the Life of…Italian LiteratureWorld LiteratureItalian Cinema | Opera

Easy Reader Multi-Packs!Italian-English Parallel TextsSelf-Study Workbooks

Spanish | French | German

Next, go to your shopping cart and paste in coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off (where it says ‘Apply coupon’), which will reduce the cart total by 20%. Press the ‘Apply coupon’ button and scroll down to check that the CART TOTAL (not the individual item price) really is discounted by 25%.

Remember: coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off expires at midnight on Sunday March 30th.

Stock up today with the easy readers, parallel texts and grammar workbooks that you’ll need to make progress with your chosen foreign language!

Here’s that coupon code once more:

2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off

Use it here:

Italian | Spanish | French | German

EasyReaders.org | Ebooks catalog | Cart

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2025 Spring Sale: Save Even More with Ebook ‘Bulk-Buys’

There are just a few days remaining of the 2025 Spring Sale promotion, which ends on Sunday March 30th 2025 (see the P.S below for details).

So still time to use coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off to so save 25% on materials that will help you progress with your Italian, French, Spanish or German in 2025.

But did you know that coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off is also valid to save 25% on our bulk-buy ebook ‘Multi-Packs”, which are already significantly cheaper than buying the materials individually?

For example, an ‘easy reader’ ebook normally sells for £9.99, which would be £7.49 if you use coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off

But we have a ‘Three For Two’ Multi-Pack (scroll down to see them) – at each of ten half-levels – which contain theee £9.99 ebooks (normal price £29.97) but cost the equivalent of two, so just £19.99.

Use coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off on those (the coupon code is only valid until Sunday March 30th 2025) and you’ll end up paying just £14.99, so £4.99 per ebook compared to the undiscounted price when bought individually of £9.99.

That’s a 50% saving.

But you could do even better than that with the really big ‘Bulk-Buys’ (scroll down to view them), which are ALREADY discounted 50% for quantity!

Remember to use coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off and you’ll end up paying just 37.5% of the cost of undiscounted ebooks bought individually, which is a bargain, by anyone’s standards.

N.b. To get the 2025 Spring Sale 25% discount, remember to use coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off in your shopping cart. Full details of how to do that are below, in the P.S.

Ebook ‘Bulk Buys’!

ITALIAN

Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level A1 £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level A1/2 £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level A2 £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level A2/B1 £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level B1 £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level B1/2 £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level B2 £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level B2/C1 £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level C1 £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level C1/C2 £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Eighteen Italian Easy Readers – HALF PRICE! £89.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Nine Book Of The Film Easy Readers – Save 50%! £44.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Nine More Italian Cinema ‘Easy Reader’ Ebooks – 50% Off! £44.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Seven ‘Day in the life of…’ Easy Readers – Save 50%! £34.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
‘Three for Two’ Italian Easy Readers: Anselmo Trilogy £19.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Nine Opera ‘Easy Reader’ Ebooks – 50% Off! £44.99 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Six Italian Literature ‘Easy Reader’ Ebooks – 50% OFF! £29.97 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Five World Literature ‘Easy Reader’ Ebooks – 50% OFF! £24.97 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Five Italian History ‘Easy Reader’ Ebooks -50% OFF! £24.97 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Twenty Italian-English Parallel Texts – HALF PRICE! £99.99 (.pdf only)

FRENCH

Eleven French ‘Easy Reader’ Ebooks – 50% Off! £54.94 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Ten French/English ‘Parallel Text’ Ebooks – 50% Off! £49.95 (.pdf only)

SPANISH

Ten Spanish ‘Easy Reader’ Ebooks – 50% Off! £49.95 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Ten Spanish/English ‘Parallel Text’ ebooks – 50% Off! £49.95 (.pdf only)

GERMAN

Eight German ‘Easy Reader’ Ebooks – 50% Off! £39.96 (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Five German/English Parallel Text Ebooks – 50% Off! £24.97 (.pdf only)

There are free sample downloads for all the titles included in the Bulk Buys, which you can find on our catalog page or by clicking through to the individual ebook product information page using the link on the product information page of the ‘Bulk-Buy’ that interests you.

Don’t forget, either, that our ‘easy reader’ ebooks, while being .pdf files by default, also allow you the option to request .epub and .mobi versions of the text, for use on ebook readers such as the Kindle, at no extra cost! Just ask us – email or add a note to your order.

Parallel-text ebooks are .pdf only, because of the special formatting required… Sorry Kindle fans!

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Learning Italian but not so into reading/listening? Prefer to work directly on grammar/vocabulary instead?

Check out these six self-study workbooks, one called ‘The Tenses You Need To Speak Italian’, and five levels of our ‘Italian Workout’ series (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1/2).

Each has a substantial free sample to download, so you can see if they’d help your learning, and find the right material for your current/future level.

These are .pdf only (no .epub or .mobi versions), because of the special formatting, which isn’t suitable for ebook readers such as the Kindle.

The Tenses You Need To Speak Italian £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: The Tenses You Need To Speak Italian

Italian Workout! A1 £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: Italian Workout! A1

Italian Workout! A2 £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: Italian Workout! A2

Italian Workout! B1 £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: Italian Workout! B1

Italian Workout! B2 £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: Italian Workout! B2

Italian Workout! C1/2 £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: Italian Workout! C1-2

P.S. Don’t forget, the 2025 Spring Sale ends Sunday!

Until Sunday March 30th 2025 everything in our ebooks store (including the Bulk Buys, and Grammar Workbooks!) is 25% cheaper, though only IF you remember to use this coupon code:

2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off

Make your selection from our range of ebooks, which have been especially written to keep you interested and making progress:

Catalog

Or browse Italian ebooks by level: A1 | A1/A2 | A2 | A2/B1 | B1 | B1/B2 | B2 | B2/C1 | C1 | C1/C2 | C2

Then, to get your discount, copy and paste coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off into your shopping cart and scroll down to check the cart total has been reduced by 25%.

Coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off also works on graded material for learning Spanish, French or German.

Apply coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off in your shopping cart to reduce the cart total by 25%!

Stock up on online easy readers, parallel texts and grammar workbooks – at an unbeatable price!

Italian | French | Spanish | German

Here’s that coupon code again:

2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off

Don’t forget to use it when you order to save 25% on the price of everything in your cart!

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2025 Spring Sale: Italian self-study workbooks -25%

As part of the 2025 Spring Sale promotion (see below for details), today we’re drawing your attention to our six ‘self-study workbooks‘.

Each has a substantial free sample, so you can take a look to see if this material might help you progress. There are links below to download the free samples.

And each/all can be discounted 25%, assuming you remember to use the 2025 Spring Sale coupon code (details of how to do that are below, in the P.S.)

Here’s are the details from our ebooks catalog:

Italian Self-Study Workbooks

Cover Image: The Tenses You Need To Speak Italian

The Tenses You Need To Speak Italian £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: Italian Workout! A1

Italian Workout! A1 £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: Italian Workout! A2

Italian Workout! A2 £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: Italian Workout! B1

Italian Workout! B1 £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: Italian Workout! B2

Italian Workout! B2 £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Cover Image: Italian Workout! C1-2

Italian Workout! C1/2 £19.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)

Not that into studying?

So why not work on improving your reading/listening comprehension skills instead?

Browse the ‘easy readers’ in our ebooks catalog, where they’re organised by type and level, all with free sample chapters and free online audio!

P.S. Don’t forget, the 2025 Spring Sale ends Sunday!

Until Sunday 30th March 2025 everything in our online ebooks store (including the grammar workbooks!) is 25% cheaper, though only IF you remember to use this coupon code:

2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off

Make your selection from our range of ebooks, which have been especially written to keep you interested and making progress:

Catalog

Or browse Italian ebooks by level: A1 | A1/A2 | A2 | A2/B1 | B1 | B1/B2 | B2 | B2/C1 | C1 | C1/C2 | C2

To get your discount, just copy and paste coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off into your shopping cart, then scroll down to check the cart total has been reduced by 25%.

Coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off also works on graded material for learning Spanish, French or German.

Apply coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off in your shopping cart to reduce the cart total by 25%!

Stock up on online easy readers, parallel texts and grammar workbooks – at an unbeatable price!

Italian | French | Spanish | German

Here’s that coupon code again:

2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off

Don’t forget to use it when you order to save 25% on the price of everything in your cart!

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2025 Spring Sale: ‘Easy readers’ and how to use them

‘Easy readers’? The term may evoke memories of the simple books you learnt to read with as a child.

But besides helping five-year-olds, ‘Easy readers’ are a valuable, yet often neglected or ignored, tool for language learners.

At EasyReaders.org we like them so much we named our ebooks store after them, and they’re by far our biggest product category, with around a hundred and thirty titles published, across twelve ‘half-levels’.

We have sixty-five ‘general’ Italian easy readers, plus twenty-nine ‘History/Historical’ readers, ten ‘A Day in the Life of…’ stories (which are also historical), six classics of ‘Italian Literature’, five of ‘World Literature’, eighteen ebooks based on classic Italian movies, and nine telling the stories of operas.

None of them were written for children.

All our ‘easy readers’ for language learners have text and online audio, and all have free sample chapters to download, so you can verify that the level of the material is right for you.

Our ‘easy readers’ are best browsed on the store’s Catalog page, where you’ll find them organised by genre and in level order, from easiest to hardest: Catalog

But wait! There’s a promotion on right now. Scroll down to the P.S. to find out how to save 25% on ‘easy readers’ and other ebooks!

Not convinced ‘easy readers’ will help you progress with your Italian?

Take a look at these Frequently Asked Questions.

How will ‘easy readers’ improve my foreign language skills?

Assuming your goal is to speak and interact in the language you’re learning, listening practice is essential from day one, as whenever you speak you’ll also be listening. And if you don’t understand what others say to you…

Unfortunately, few learners get enough listening practice, which is a problem. After all, there’s not a lot of point studying grammar, vocabulary, and so on if you can’t then understand it when you hear it, right?

And if you can’t read confidently in the language you’re learning, everything will be that much harder to assimilate.

‘Easy readers’ offer the reading and listening skills practice that your language course or app may not otherwise be providing. Better still, they come at all levels, from beginner to advanced, so you can select material that’s right for your current learning stage.

How do I listen to the audio at the same time as reading the .pdf?

(Try this by downloading a free sample from our Catalog page…)

You need to juggle two applications on your device (computer, tablet, etc.), the .pdf reader (which opens the .pdf ebook) and the web browser (which will play the online audio when you click on the audio link in the ebook text).

First, download the .pdf ebook. Save it some place safe, where you’ll know to find it again. Then click on it. Your device’s usual .pdf reader will open it. On Apple devices, try using the Books app to open the .pdf download link.

‘Easy readers’ have a link to the online audio at the top of Chapter 1. The audio files for the entire text, not just Chapter 1, are available to listen to, absolutely free of charge, at Soundcloud.com. Click the audio link in the free sample chapters (get them from the Catalog page) to locate the FREE online audio files.

When you click the online audio link, a new browser window will open on  your device showing the Soundcloud.com interface. Press the play button (white triangle in an orange circle). The audio will begin. Make sure you have the audio on your device turned on, and up enough so you can hear it.

You can see from the Soundcloud.com page whether the track is playing or not. If you still don’t hear anything, the problem is at your end (on your tablet, smart phone or computer.) Verify that by visiting another site with audio and seeing if THAT works. If not, you’ll need to figure out how to play audio on your device, or use a different device.

Audio playing OK? Now minimise the internet browser showing the audio player (leaving it playing.) Go back to your .pdf viewer and view the ebook as you did before. To listen and read at the same time, all you have to do is juggle the two windows (leaving both applications on and working.)

Switch to the browser to pause, stop, replay, etc. And back to the .pdf viewer to follow along with the text.

How to use your ‘easy reader’ to improve your reading/listening skills

(Try this by downloading a free sample from our Catalog page…)

1.) First read/listen at the same time. Aim to complete a chapter per study session. Don’t worry about stuff you don’t understand, don’t stop to look things up, just try to finish the chapter, reading as best you can at the speed of the audio. You should get a sense of achievement just by ‘finishing’ the audio + text, even if your understanding of it is very limited. At this first stage, that’s fine.

2.) Now (maybe another day) read again at your own pace, without the audio. Best to guess the difficult words from context if you can. Use a dictionary only if you really must, as it will make the whole thing more arduous and reduce the benefit you’ll get from actual reading… [optionally, repeat stage 1 at this point]

3.) The next stage is to listen again but this time without the text. This phase is to work on listening comprehension and only that. You should by now have a reasonable idea of what’s going on in the text, so the challenge is to see how much you can pick out when just hearing it. You can repeat this as often as you want. It’ll be hard at first, but will get easier with practice. And come back to it again in the future! As with a song, the more times you hear it, the more you might get out of it.

4.) When you’ve done all the chapters, find another ‘easy reader’ and repeat the process. Stay at approximately the same level of difficulty until you can do the steps above with confidence. Then move up to something harder, knowing though that you’ll feel less confident at first. Gradually push up through the levels until you feel confident moving on to authentic materials like novels, films, etc.

Help! I can’t figure out how to play your audio recordings multiple times.

The audio tracks for our ‘easy readers’ are hosted on Soundcloud.com, so as not to overload our store’s server. When you click on the ‘Listen online’ link (which you’ll find in the ebook text, if you look), a browser window will open showing the page at Soundcloud.com for this particular audio book. You’ll see ‘Play’ and ‘Pause’ buttons.

The problem comes when your track finishes. Where the ‘play’ and ‘pause’ controls were, you see a message ‘Explore more tracks like this on Soundcloud.com…’, when what you really want to see is the ‘Play’ command, so you can hear the track again.

Look for the little X in the right-hand corner of the Soundcloud ad. Click on that, and the grey part will disappear. You’ll then be back where you were before and will see the ‘Play’ command you need to hear the track again as many times as you wish.

How do I add the ebook to my Kindle or other ebook reader?

When you buy an ebook from our store, you’ll automatically be sent a link to download the .pdf version of the text. Other versions of the ebook text (used for Kindle/other ebook readers) can’t be downloaded that way, but will be emailed manually to buyers who request them. Do that by adding a note to your order form, or emailing us separately (just reply to any of the automated emails the online store sends you.)

When we manually email you the .mobi and/or .epub versions you asked for, save them to a location on your computer or tablet where you’ll easily be able to find them again when you need them i.e. on the desktop, or in the ‘downloads’ folder.

Switch on your Kindle/ebook reader and connect it to a computer’s USB port using the cable that came with the device when you bought it. It will appear as an external storage drive on the computer’s desktop (in Windows navigate to ‘My computer’ to find it).

Click on the device icon on your computer and look for a folder named “documents” or similar (the one in which other ebook files are stored). Now drag or copy/paste the .mobi/.epub ebook version from the location you previously saved it on your computer to the folder on your Kindle or other ebook reader.

When it has finished copying, unplug your Kindle/other ebook reader. Your ebook should then be readable on it.

Kindle users can also add .epub files to their devices by emailing them to the special ‘Kindle’ email. Locate your Kindle’s “Send-to-Kindle email address” by switching on your Kindle, selecting “Settings” from the home screen menu, then choosing “Device Options” followed by “Personalise Your Kindle”. There’s a note of your “Send-to-Kindle E-mail” under that heading.

P.S. The 2025 Spring Sale ends Sunday!

Don’t forget to save 25% on the ebooks you need to give your foreign language skills a boost in the 2025 Spring Sale!

Until Sunday March 30th 2025 everything in our online store, EasyReaders.org, is 25% cheaper IF you remember to use this coupon code:

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To get your discount, just copy and paste coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off into your shopping cart, then scroll down to check the cart total has been reduced by 25%.

Make your selection from our range of ebooks, which have been especially written to keep you interested and making progress:

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Or browse Italian ebooks by level: A1 | A1/A2 | A2 | A2/B1 | B1 | B1/B2 | B2 | B2/C1 | C1 | C1/C2 | C2

Coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off also works on graded material for learning Spanish, French or German.

Apply coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-25%-Off in your shopping cart to reduce the cart total by 25%!

Stock up on online easy readers, parallel texts and grammar workbooks – at an unbeatable price!

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Here’s that coupon code again:

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Don’t forget to use it when you order to save 25% on the price of everything in your cart!

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