Author: easyreadersorg

This week we’re doing the half-price ebook offer on three titles we published in 2016. Any of them will cost you just £3.99 until Sunday 23rd April 2023.

These three are all around intermediate/upper-intermediate. Check the FREE sample chapters to see if they might be right for you.

(We liked the first one best…)

Galileo, Pisa e la luna (B1/2)

Pisa, 1690. Academic and university teacher, Galileo, is re-thinking Aristotle’s idea that the heavier an object is, the faster it will fall to earth. With the help of his reluctant assistant, Valerio, and the city’s famous leaning tower!

This original easy Italian reader, ‘Galileo, Pisa e la luna’ allows us to join the Reniassance scientist for a day while he conducts one of his most famous experiments…

• .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 intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Buy Galileo, Pisa e la luna just £3.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | ‘A Day in the Life of…’ | Catalog

Vivaldi e la chiesa della Salute (B2)

A misty Sunday morning in Venice, 1703, and there goes Sig. Vivaldi, part-time violinist and composer, hurrying off to his day job taking mass in one of the city’s famous churches…

This original easy Italian reader, ‘Vivaldi e la chiesa della Salute’ allows us a glimpse into the life of the famous Italian composer while providing fascinating details about some Venice landmarks.

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• 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 intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Buy Vivaldi e la chiesa della Salute just £3.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | ‘A Day in the Life of…’ | Catalog

Un giorno con Raffaello (B1/B2)

Who hasn’t now heard of Raffaello, one of the most famous Italian painters? But he wasn’t always so well-known.

This original easy Italian reader, ‘Un giorno con Raffaello’ introduces us to Raffaello early in his career when, one morning, he receives an unexpected letter…

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• 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 intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Buy Un giorno con Raffaello just £3.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | ‘A Day in the Life of…’ | Catalog

How do I access my ebooks?

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.

Have you seen Tuesday’s bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news? It was published this morning.

If not, perhaps you’re not (yet) a subscriber?

Subscribers get each bulletin, via email, three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Subscribing is FREE.

Don’t forget – the 2023 Spring Sale ends tonight, Monday 10th April 2023.

Coupon code Spring-Sale-2023 is still valid on EVERYTHING in our online store, EasyReaders.org, which specialises in ebooks for learning foreign languages, in particular Italian, but also French, Spanish German and some other languages.

Browse the Catalog now! There 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 2023.

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.

These materials normally cost £7.99, but until midnight tonight you can use coupon code Spring-Sale-2023 to reduce that by 20%, to just £6.39.

Stock up on the study materials you need today, before the 2023 Spring Sale ends. The next similar promotion won’t be until the first week of July…

EasyReaders.org

Don’t forget, the coupon code to save 20% on the published prices is Spring-Sale-2023.

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 20%, 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.

Ebooks for learning Italian/French/Spanish/German

P.S.

Coupon code Spring-Sale-2023 is also good for a 20% discount at our online lessons store, NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, but only until midnight tonight, Monday 10th April!

A quick reminder about our 2023 Spring Sale, which will end at midnight on Monday 10th April 2023.

Save 20% on EVERYTHING in our TWO online stores, EasyReaders.org (ebooks for learning languages, ‘easy readers’, ‘parallel texts’) and NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (one-to-one lessons), by using this coupon code:

Spring-Sale-2023

Ten thirty-minute online lessons with a native speaker teacher (Italian, French, Spanish…) would normally cost you £180 (just £18 a lesson).

But with the coupon code Spring-Sale-2023, that figure is reduced to just £144! (£14.40 a lesson.)

That’s like getting two free lessons!

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 £7.99.

But with coupon code Spring-Sale-2023, you could add five ebooks to your cart and the twenty percent saving means you’ll only pay for four!

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

Start by making your selection of one-to-one online lesson options and ebooks from EasyReaders.org (ebooks for learning languages, ‘easy readers’, ‘parallel texts’) and/or NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (one-to-one lessons).

Next, go to your shopping cart and paste in coupon code Spring-Sale-2023(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 Spring-Sale-2023 expires at midnight on Monday 10th April 2023.

Stock up today on the online lesson credits, 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:

Spring-Sale-2023

Use it in either or both of our online stores:

EasyReaders.org (ebooks) | NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (lessons)

On Tuesday we announced that our 2023 Spring Sale had begun. Find out more here.

So today, as part of this promotion, I’m going to give you my top ebook picks for beginner, intermediate, and advanced-learners of Italian – I hope there’ll be something here that grabs you!

When I say ‘my top picks’, what I mean is the ebooks that I have enjoyed the most (I read them all, multiple times, during the editing and publishing process).

My criteria is just that: enjoyment. Why?

Because as a language-learner myself, I find that if there’s a story that engages me (whether it’s a news article, or fiction, like our ‘easy readers’), I’ll keep turning the page.

And if I can’t (metaphorically) put an ebook down, my reading comprehension skills improve, and with them my knowledge of vocabulary, and my confidence with the grammar of the language I’m learning.

As any teacher (or student) knows, boredom is the enemy! So a writer that knows how to craft a text so that it pulls you in and won’t let go, even if it’s ‘just’ language-study material, is indeed a useful ally!

Don’t forget, the 2023 Spring Sale is on! To get 20% off everything in your shopping cart, copy/paste the coupon code, which is:

Spring-Sale-2023

Bene, let’s get to it. I’m on the Catalog page of our online shop, starting a little way down, where it says ‘Italian Easy Readers’ (if you’re learning another language, you’ll need to scroll down the Catalog page and make your own selections, sorry!)

So we have seventeen easy reader ebooks for A1 and A2 students, six at A1 (the lowest level), eight at the ‘half-level’ A1/2, and three at A2 (the harder ones). If you’re not sure which level is right for you, use the Free Sample links and take a look. You should be able to get the gist of the story with only occasional use of a dictionary.

N.b. This article was written a couple of years ago. Since then we’ve published other ebooks, so the selection at your level is probably even more ample than described below. Our Catalog page is always up-to-date, so includes the most recent titles, and free sample chapters!

So honestly? I enjoyed all seventeen. but I’ve been strict with myself and whittled the total down to just two at each level, concentrating on the ones I liked the MOST – the stories that made me actually care about the characters, and about what happened to them next!

(These are extracts from our Catalog page, so you can also see the price, the available formats, and a link to the free sample chapter for each title…)

A1

Colpo di forbici (A1) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Rosa la cuoca disastrosa (A1) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)

A1/2

Il giocoliere (A1/2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
L’ascensore (A1/2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)

A2

Cielo libero (A2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
L’amore ai tempi del supermercato (A2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)

What if those were too easy for you? Nessun problema. For ‘intermediate’ learners we have loads and loads of materials – twenty-two separate titles!

The hard part was choosing between them, but again, I’ve been strict and narrowed it down to two stories at each half level…

A2/B1

2 giugno 1946 (A2/B1) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Il campo di papaveri (A2/B1) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)

B1

Caccia all’autografo (B1) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Dante, gatto vagante (B1) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)

B1/B2

L’imperatore e i giochi (B1/2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Segreti e polpette (B1/2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)

B2

Natale a sorpresa (B2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Le italiane (B2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)

Hope there was something there that called out “Read me!”

But if you looked at the sample chapters and they were STILL to simple for you, firstly, well done for reading Italian for such confidence, and secondly, brace yourself now for the hard stuff!

B2/C1

Prometeo e la guerra dei titani (B2/C1) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi)
Il bar (B2/C1) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi)

C1

La commediante (C1) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi)
I racconti della vestale (C1) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi)

C1/C2

Anselmo e l’omicidio di Giovanni Borgia (C1/2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
Il vulcano (C1/2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)

C2

La Via Francigena (C2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)
La carriera – dietro le quinte del Palio di Siena (C2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf, .epub, .mobi/Kindle)

Bene. Hope you found lots that will keep you reading in and listening to Italian in 2023!

The prices marked above are the usual, year-round prices but with the 2023 Spring Sale promotion (which ends on Monday 10th April 2023) everything in our TWO online stores (EasyReaders.org for ebooks, NativeSpeakerTeachers.com for online lesson credits) is 20% cheaper!

Copy and paste the coupon code Spring-Sale-2023 into your shopping cart in either store, then scroll down to check the cart total has been reduced by 20%.

Make your selections today!

EasyReaders.org (ebooks) | NativeSpeakerTeachers.com (lessons)

P.S.

Check out the ‘easy reader’ ebook MULTIPACKS, which get you a three-for-two deal, or better.

AND the 20% discount!

Assuming you remember to use the coupon code, that is…

Spring-Sale-2023

The EasyReaders.org 2023 Spring Sale has begun!

Which means that students of Italian, Spanish, French or German can save 20% on ebooks to supplement or guide their language learning.

Everything in our ebooks store, EasyReaders.org, is a fifth cheaper (if you remember to use the coupon code Spring-Sale-2023 ).

Check out, for instance, the Italian easy readers, parallel texts, and self-study workbooks.

Ebooks for students of French, Spanish and German can be found in our Catalog, where everything is organised by language, type, and level!

Pop 5 ebooks into your shopping cart (reading and listening practice is essential), yet pay for just four of them!

Use the following coupon code to save 20% on your orders, for as long as the promotion lasts, with no minimum or maximum spend:

Spring-Sale-2023

First make your selection from our range of ebooks, which have been especially written to keep you interested and so making progress.

Then go to your shopping cart and apply coupon code Spring-Sale-2023 to reduce the cart total by 20%.

Scroll down to verify that the cart total has been reduced by 20% BEFORE proceeding with your payment…

The coupon code is good until midnight on Monday 10th April 2023.

You can use it as often as you wish until then, with no minimum or maximum spend.

Restrictions? Small print?

Coupon code Spring-Sale-2023 can’t be used together with any other coupon code you may already have.

Besides that, no.

The next sale won’t be until the first week of July, so a long way off!

Do find some time to stock up on the easy readers, parallel texts and grammar workbooks you’ll need to improve the language you’re learning in 2023 –  at an unbeatable price!

Browse our Catalog now!

P.S.

Coupon code Spring-Sale-2023 is also good for a 20% discount on one-to-one lessons purchased from our sister store, NativeSpeakerTeachers.com.

Next week we’re having our 2023 Spring Sale, which means that everything at our ebook store EasyReaders.org can be had a fifth cheaper than usual.

On Tuesday April 4th we’ll be emailing a coupon code so students of Italian, Spanish, French and German can save 20% on ebooks for learning foreign languages, such as graded easy readers, parallel texts, and grammar workbooks!

Reading and listening practice is essential to building and maintaining comprehension skills, so take the chance next week to pop 5 ebooks into your shopping cart, yet pay for just four of them!

Watch out for the email with the coupon code on Tuesday April 4th 2023!

In the meantime, why not browse our Catalog page, where you’ll find materials for learning Italian, French, Spanish, German, and certain other languages, organised by type and level.

The Catalog page also has links to free samples for all the languages and for virtually all of the ebook titles. Download a few at different levels and read/listen  to them – it’s a good way to verify your reading/listening comprehension level in the language or languages you’re studying!

Our ebooks are .pdf by default (everyone is familiar with those), but for some types of text we also offer other formats that are compatible with Kindles and other ebook readers, .epub for instance. Both the Catalog page and the product information pages for each individual ebook should make it clear which format or formats are available, and how to get them!

Ebook store | Catalog | FAQ

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This week we’re publishing another title in our series of Italian ‘easy reader’ ebooks based on operas, Puccini’s much-loved Madama Butterfly. As always with new publications, it’s 25% discounted this first week (offer ends Sunday 26th March 2023).

We began the series back in the fall of 2022, with a simplified text + audio version of Nabucco, one of composer Verdi’s most famous operas. Next we did Puccini’s romantic classic, Turandot, then another Puccini weepy, La Bohème, returning to Verdi for the final two publications of 2022, Rigoletto and La traviata, and most recently, the spectacular Aida.

But back to Madama Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera was first performed in Milan in 1904, and is here simplifed for learners of Italian at around intermediate level (with quotes from the actual libretto!)

What’s it about?

We’re in Nagasaki, the famous Japanese port, in the early years of the twentieth century. Let’s have a drink with Pinkerton, a U.S. naval officer – today’s his wedding day! The bride-to-be, Cio Cio-San, is beautiful, just fifteen years old, and fragile as a butterfly. Should be a happy day for them both!

Begin with this ‘easy reader’ ebook before watching the actual opera, or simply use this original Italian reading/listening practice material to add a little variety to your study program.

• .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 (based on Puccini’s Act/Scene structure) to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
• Suitable for students at pre-intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Do check out the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) before you buy a copy. That way, you’ll know whether the level is suitable for you, and that the format works on the device you intend to use it on.

This being the first week, Madama Butterfly is 25% discounted, so just £5.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price of £7.99.

Buy Madama Butterfly, just £5.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | Opera ebooks | Catalog

How do I access my ebook?

hen 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.

Don’t forget to read/listen to Tuesday’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news (text + online audio), which was published a few hours ago.

And why not subscribe, to get each thrice-weekly bulletin sent directly to your email inbox? That’s also FREE.

This week we’re doing the half-price ebook offer on three titles we published in 2021. Any of them will cost you just £3.99 until Sunday 19th March 2023.

These three are all on the easier side, though I’m putting them in level order in any case, from easiest to hardest.

The first one is an actual story, in the usual format, while the second and third are both collections of texts – different characters writing about their typical days (the second one), so using the present tense, and a memorable day in their lives (the third one), so the past tense.

Despite the obvious grammatical focus of those two, they’re fun. I enjoyed them, at least. Check out the free sample chapters to see if you might, too.

Il ciclista (A2)

A big-city journalist takes a much-needed break in a picturesque Umbrian village. On her first morning there she heads to the only bar for breakfast, and is suprised to find an older man asleep in his wheelchair…

• .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 Il ciclista just £3.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | Read reviews! | Catalog

Ti racconto la mia giornata (A2)

‘Tell us about your typical day’ is a classic classroom activity for practising the present, describing routines, likes and dislikes, and so on. So here, nine people do!

Read/listen to a nurse, a DJ, a tour guide, a carer, and five more, relating a day from their lives, from the vital issue of what they have for breakfast, to their jobs, their families and friends, and how they relax.

Once you’ve done all nine, test how much you’ve understood (and hopefully learnt!) using the exercises in the final section.

• .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
• 9 chapters to read and listen to
• 9 exercises at the end of the ebook, to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossaries of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
• Suitable for students at elementary level and above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Buy Ti racconto la mia giornata just £3.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | Read reviews! | Catalog

Un giorno da ricordare (B2)

Learn Italian by reading and listening to easy readers (simplified stories).

This ebook contains nine tales of unforgettable days, recounted by memorable characters, with the aim of stimulating you to listen to and read Italian, while offering plenty of exposure to the main Italian past tense!

Topics include a new grandson, getting laid off, a shipwreck, a child’s first ski race, a dream home, a surprise party, a pet dog, graduation day, and losing a cellphone!

• .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
• 9 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 intermediate level and above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Buy Un giorno da ricordare just £3.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | Read reviews! | Catalog

How do I access my ebooks?

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.

Have you seen Tuesday’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news (text + online audio)? It was published an hour or two ago. Reading/listening to it is FREE!

Subscibing is FREE too, and subscribers get each thrice-weekly bulletin sent directly to their email inboxes, each Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. You can subscribe here.

Our latest Italian ‘easy reader’ ebook is about Joe Petrosino, the first Italian-American police officer, who was famous for his fight against the mafia.

As usual with new publications, this week it’s 25% discounted, compared to the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price, so just £5.99, rather than £7.99.

We also have four other HALF-PRICE ebooks from our Catalog, about the Italian diaspora in the USA, Australia, Scotland, and Spain. Each of those costs just £3.99.

All five offers end on Sunday 12th March 2023. Scroll down for details!

An original Italian easy reader by Francesca Colombo

Are Italians immigrants in 19th century New York all the same, ‘a race of criminials’? Find out with our original, ‘easy reader’ ebook, and improve your Italian reading and listening skills at the same time!

“Devono brillare queste scarpe, ragazzo! Oggi non ho fretta. Come ti chiami?” Il ragazzino risponde con un forte accento italiano: “Joe, signore. Mi chiamo Joe Petrosino. Le sue scarpe saranno come nuove in pochi minuti.”

Il poliziotto annuisce distrattamente: “Fai del tuo meglio, Joe.” Intanto osserva il negozio di alimentari fatto saltare in aria il giorno prima. La bomba ha distrutto la porta e la vetrina, l’insegna che dice: “Da Felice, prodotti italiani” è rimasta al suo posto, ma è storta.

Il poliziotto irlandese sospira scuotendo la testa, mentre altri due colleghi più giovani gli si avvicinano. Uno di questi gli chiede: “Chiudiamo il caso, signore? È il solito regolamento di conti fra italiani, è inutile perdere tempo” e l’altro aggiunge: “È impossibile capire quello che dicono e quello che gli passa per la testa. Sono una razza di criminali, e il proprietario del negozio vai a sapere se non era un mezzo mafioso anche lui… tutti uguali, tutti uguali.”

• .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 intermediate level or above
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Buy Joe Petrosino e la lotta alla mafia just £5.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | Catalog

Read about other famous Italian-Americans in the B2/C1-level La diaspora italiana – Italiani negli Stati Uniti (Free sample chapter .pdf | Read reviews), which is HALF-PRICE this week. Joe is featured in that one, too, but is only one of many interesting characters.

N.b. Given that there was so much to write about Italian-Americans, that one is DOUBLE THE NORMAL LENGTH, sixteen chapters instead of the typical eight. Which at 50% off the usual price makes for an extra-special bargain!

Also half-price this week are the three other titles in our ‘Italian Diaspora’ series:

• La diaspora italiana – Italiani in Australia (Free sample chapter .pdf)
• La diaspora italiana – Italiani in Scozia (Free sample chapter .pdf | Read reviews)
• La diaspora italiana – Italiani in Spagna (Free sample chapter .pdf | Read reviews)

How do I access my ebooks?

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.

Thursday’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news (text + online audio) was published this morning.

Subscribers get each thrice-weekly bulletin sent directly to their email inboxes, also for FREE, each Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Subscribe here.

This week for our half-price ebook offer, we’re discounting four Italian ‘easy readers’ that we published in 2020.

Until Sunday 5th March 2023, get them for just £3.99 each, rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ price of £7.99!

This week’s half-price ebooks, in level order from easier to hardest, are…

Zio Ciro e la pizza (B1)

Against her conservative father’s wishes, a nineteen-year-old Italian-American, buys a plane ticket to Napoli, in Italy. The plan is to discover the city her family originated from, and to get to know zio Ciro, the black sheep of the family!

Join Angela as she helps her Neapolitan uncle prepare pizzas for a special lunch, while learning the fascinating history of Napoli’s most famous dish!

• .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)

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Dante, un’altra marachella (B1/2)

Dante, the black and white feline protagonist of ‘Dante, gatto vagante‘ is once more out and about, roaming the sestiere of Venice where he lives, his earlier misadventures having faded from memory. These days he always finds his way home, safe and sound, to the loving Anna and a delicious bowl of crunchy ‘croccantini’. So why would today be any different?

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Chi è per me Cecilia (C1/2)

“Grandioso! Licenziato dopo due mesi… E adesso che faccio?!” pensai. Il primo impulso era stato quello di prendere il cellulare. Avevo scorso la rubrica fino alla lettera “C”, poi mi ero fermato a fissare lo schermo. Infine avevo sospirato e lo avevo riposto in tasca. Preso dallo sconforto, mi guardai intorno e chiesi, questa volta ad alta voce: “Che diamine posso fare?”

Milanese twenty-something Matteo loses his first real job after just a few months, and despairs he’ll ever find another. His parents don’t understand how bad his prospects seem, and he hasn’t spoken to his best friend, Cecilia, for several months. Should he call her? But can true friendship between a man and a woman really exist?

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La carriera – dietro le quinte del Palio di Siena (C2)

“E mancano solo quattro giorni al Palio, la corsa di cavalli più famosa d’Italia!”
sebbene la radio gracchiasse, si distinguevano piuttosto chiaramente le parole dell’esaltato commentatore: “Siena freme e si dipinge dei colori delle contrade, agghindate per la festa. Come ben sapete, cari ascoltatori, tra le dieci contrade che gareggiano vi sono alleanze e rivalità secolari. Per ogni contrada è stato già estratto a sorte un cavallo. I migliori di quest’anno sono il giovane Trifoglio, che è al suo secondo palio e corre per la contrada dell’Istrice, e la veterana Caruccia che vestirà i colori della Lupa. La Lupa e l’Istrice sono due storiche rivali, che fatalità, signori! Se ne vedranno delle belle!”

Follow Il Guercio, the diminutive one-eyed Sardinian jockey, as he’s hired to ride one of the year’s best horses, bareback, in Italy’s most famous urban race, the Siena Palio!

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