Published this week is our new, C1-level, ‘easy’ Italian reader ebook, ‘I racconti della vestale‘, the reminiscences of one of Rome’s famous vestal virgins!

“La donna ha bisogno di essere protetta da un uomo perché è debole sotto molti aspetti. Per questo nessuna donna è libera. Né le attrici né le prostitute, né le cittadine, né le campagnole, né le matrone né, ovviamente, le schiave”.

Così aveva sentenziato mia nonna, accompagnandomi alla cerimonia di iniziazione, e poi aveva aggiunto, alzando il dito indice: “Ma le sacerdotesse della dea sono protette da Vesta, e sono preparate fin da piccole ad avere grandi responsabilità. Perciò possono scegliere cosa fare della propria vita, e quando finiscono di prestare servizio alla città, hanno la stessa libertà di un uomo”.

Find out more about this story in our online shop (scroll down to read the full product description) and/or check out the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf), to get an idea of the length, level and format of the ebook.

N.b. At the top of Chapter 1 in the free sample chapter download (.pdf) there’s a link to the online audio. Which means you can listen to the whole story, even if you don’t buy the ebook!

Naturally, having the full text does offer a more-complete study experience. So, to encourage you to buy a copy, this first week only ‘I racconti della vestale‘ is 25% off – so just £5.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ price of £7.99!

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .ePub and Mobi (Kindle-compatible) versions available at no extra cost (just ask)
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms
• Suitable for students at upper-intermediate level and above
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 13/09/20) just £5.99!
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Once your order is completed, you will receive a download link for the full version of the ebook. The download link is valid for 7 days / 3 download attempts, so save the .pdf ebook in a safe place on your device!

Buy ‘I racconti della vestale‘, just £5.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Catalog

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Summer’s over (in the northern hemisphere, at least), the kids are going back to school, and language courses are restarting.

Therefore, so are we, first of all with a fantastic-value, half-price ‘eBook of the Week’, to get you in the mood! Then next week with a new advanced-level ‘easy reader’, and later, at the start of October, with our -20% Autumn Sale.

But let’s take that a step at a time.

This week’s 50%-Off ‘Ebook of the Week’ is the B1/B2 (intermediate/upper-intermediate) level L’imperatore e i giochi.

‘The philosopher’, Marco Aurelio (121 – 180 CE), was the last of the ‘Five Good Emperors’ who ruled during the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace and stability.

Join him and his son as they head off to the Colosseum for an afternoon of ‘entertainment’ – watching gladiators fight to the death.

The boy can’t wait! But his father is less than enthusiastic…

L’imperatore e i giochi is ideal for anyone who has been studying Italian for a while but would now like to focus on building their reading/listening skills, rather than on yet another grammar lesson…

Normally £7.99, L’imperatore e i giochi is half price this week, so just £3.99.

For £3.99 you get:

• .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)

N.b. Your e-book will be emailed to you within 24 hours of your purchase.

L’imperatore e i giochi, just £3.99! | Free Sample Chapter | Catalog

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A final reminder to save 20% in the EasyReaders.Org 2020 Summer Sale, which ends at midnight tonight (Sunday 12th of July).

Get a fifth off the price of EVERYTHING you need for your language learning – online lessons with native speaker teachers, ebooks for learning languages, ‘easy readers’, ‘parallel texts’ – by using this coupon code:

2020-Summer-Sale-20%-Off

Stock up on the online lesson credits, easy readers, parallel texts and grammar workbooks that you will need to make progress with your chosen foreign language!

Make your selection of one-to-one online lesson options and ebooks from our catalog page.

Then go to your shopping cart and apply coupon code 2020-Summer-Sale-20%-Off to reduce the cart total by 20%.

Once again, the coupon code to use in your cart to reduce the published prices by a full 20% is:

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Browse the catalog or go directly to the language you’re studying: 

Italian | French | Spanish | German | Other languages.

A quick reminder about the EasyReaders.Org 2020 Summer Sale, which is ending in a little over thirty-six hours, at midnight on Sunday 12th of July.

The cost of EVERYTHING in our catalog – online lessons with native speaker teachers, ebooks for learning languages, ‘easy readers’, ‘parallel texts’ – will be reduced by 20% when you use this coupon code:

2020-Summer-Sale-20%-Off

For example?

Well, ten thirty-minute online lessons with a native speaker teacher (Italian, French, Spanish, German…) would normally cost you £165 (just £16.50 a lesson).

But with the above coupon code, that figure is reduced to just £132 (£13.20 a lesson), which is like getting two free lessons!

Or what about this?

An ebook ‘easy reader’ (simplified text + audio) or ‘parallel text’ (simplified text + translation), both of which are ideal for supplementing a more traditional language course, would normally cost £7.99.

But with the coupon code, you could buy several, perhaps at different levels (so anticipating the progress you will make this year) and get MORE learning material for your money.

Add five ebooks to your cart and the twenty percent saving means you’ll only be paying for four. Choose ten but pay for eight, and so on.

So how exactly can you save money on your language-learning this summer?

First, make your selection of one-to-one online lesson options and ebooks from our catalog page.

(Or view only the language that interests you with these links: Italian | French | Spanish | German | Other languages.)

Then go to your shopping cart and apply coupon code 2020-Summer-Sale-20%-Off to reduce the cart total by 20%.

Remember: the coupon code is only good until tomorrow night, Sunday 12th July.

Find some time today to stock up on the online lesson credits, easy readers, parallel texts and grammar workbooks that you will need to make progress with your chosen foreign language!

Once again, the coupon code to use in your cart to reduce the published prices by a full 20% is:

2020-Summer-Sale-20%-Off

Browse the catalog now!

Or go directly to the language you’re studying: Italian | French | Spanish | German | Other languages.

Don’t forget the EasyReaders.Org ‘Summer Sale’!

Until Sunday night, you can save 20% on our whole range of ebooks for learning foreign languages, and/or on one-to-one lessons with our team of online teachers.

The coupon code you need to get the discount is:

2020-Summer-Sale-20%-Off

Copy and paste the coupon code (above in bold) into the box in your shopping cart (where it says ‘Apply coupon’).

Then scroll down to check that the cart total has been discounted.

• The code above gets you a 20% discount on anything!
• It’s valid until midnight on Sunday 12th July 2020
• There’s no minimum or maxium spend
• Use the coupon as often as you wish while the offer lasts
• It will even work on items which are already discounted such as ebook multipacks
• But it can’t be used with other coupons…
• Payment options include Amazon, Paypal, or direct payment to our UK bank account

Email us if you need help, either with the coupon code or in choosing what might be most suitable for your level and situation.

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Don’t forget to use the coupon code! It’s 2020-Summer-Sale-20%-Off

Just a quick email to let you know that the EasyReaders.Org ‘Summer Sale’ started  yesterday!

Which means that you can save 20% on our whole range of ebooks for learning foreign languages, and/or on one-to-one lessons with one of our friendly, native-speaker online teachers.

Click these links to choose materials and online lessons for the language or languages that you’re learning:

Italian | French | Spanish | German | All languages

The coupon code you need to get the discount is:

2020-Summer-Sale-20%-Off

To reduce the price of everything by 20% compared to the prices shown in our online shop, copy and paste the coupon code (above in bold) into the box in your shopping cart (where it says ‘Apply coupon’).

Then scroll down to check that the cart total has been discounted.

Here are full details of this offer:

• The code above gets you a 20% discount on anything!
• It’s valid until midnight on Sunday 12th July 220
• There’s no minimum or maxium spend
• Use the coupon as often as you wish while the offer lasts
• It will even work on items which are already discounted such as ebook multipacks
• But it can’t be used with other coupons…
• Payment options include Amazon, Paypal, or direct payment to our UK bank account

If you need help, either with the coupon code or in choosing what might be most suitable for your level and situation, feel free to email me.

So, ready to save £££ and turbo charge your study program??

The catalog page shows everything, all in one place, language by language, and organised by type and in level order.

There you’ll find our full range of lessons, easy readers,  ebooks with the stories of classic Italian movies, super-simplified versions of major works of Italian literature, literature, parallel texts that compare Italian/French/Spanish/German with English, self-study workbooks, and so on.

Along with the prices and links to the product information page and to the downloadable free sample chapters.

Visit the catalog page to take a look!

Or browse only the language that you’re currently studying:

Italian | French | Spanish | German | other languages

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Don’t forget to copy/paste it into the box in your shoping cart.

If you have been enjoying our ‘Classic Italian Literature’ series of easy reader ebooks (‘Le avventure di Pinocchio‘, ‘Uno, nessuno e centomila‘, ‘I Malavoglia‘, and ‘La coscienza di Zeno‘), don’t miss the newest one, perhaps the most famous Italian novel of them all, ‘I promessi sposi‘!

Said to be the most famous and widely-read Italian novel, Alessandro Manzoni’s romantic blockbuster, first published in 1827, is set in the early seventeenth century during the oppressive years of Spanish rule.

Renzo and Lucia are engaged to be wed, but the comely maiden has caught the eye of the local Spanish overlord, who sends a pair of heavies to intimidate the village priest into not performing the marriage. The couple have no choice but to flee their homes in the hope of finding safety…

Check out the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) to get an idea of the length, level and format of the material.

Save the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) on your computer, tablet or smartphone, or print it to study in the traditional way – it contains a link to the online audio, which means you can listen to the whole story for FREE online, even if you decide not to buy the full version!

As always with new ebooks, ‘I promessi sposi‘ is 25% off the usual ‘easy reader’ price of £7.99 this first week, so just £5.99!

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .ePub and .mobi (Kindle-compatible) versions available at no extra cost (just ask at the time of your order, or email us)
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of words you might not know
• Suitable for students at intermediate level or above
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 05/07/20) just £5.99!
• Download the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Your ebook will be emailed to you within 24 hours of purchase.

I promessi sposi just £5.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Literature series | Or browse our Catalog

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If you enjoyed the first three ebooks in our series of ‘Classic Italian Literature’ easy readers, ‘Le avventure di Pinocchio‘, ‘Uno, nessuno e centomila‘, and ‘I Malavoglia‘, don’t miss the newest one: ‘La coscienza di Zeno‘!

Italo Svevo’s self-published 1923 novel takes the form of memoirs written by his protagonist, Zeno, a sick young man who is undergoing the new therapy of psychoanalysis and writing down his thoughts – on the instructions of his doctor, who later betrays him – as part of that process.

Follow poor Zeno as he explores his addictive personality, acquires a wife and later a lover, grieves for his dead father, fails at business, and eventually, many years later comes to the realisation that…

Check out the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) to get an idea of the length, level and format of the material.

The Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) can be saved on your computer, tablet or smartphone, or printed to study in the traditional way – it also contains a link to the online audio, so you can listen to the whole story FREE online, even if you decide not to buy the full version of the ebook!

As always, this first week ‘La coscienza di Zeno‘ is 25% off the usual ‘easy reader’ price of £7.99, at just £5.99!

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .ePub and Mobi (Kindle-compatible) versions available at no extra cost (just ask at the time of your order, or email us)
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of words you might not know
• Suitable for students at pre-intermediate level or above
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 21/06/20) just £5.99!
• Download the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Your ebook will be emailed to you within 24 hours of purchase.

La coscienza di Zeno just £5.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Literature series | Or browse our Catalog

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If you enjoyed the first and second ebooks in our series of ‘Literature’ easy readers, ‘Le avventure di Pinocchio‘, and ‘Uno, nessuno e centomila‘, we’re sure you’ll be pleased to hear that we’ve now published a third title: Giovanni Verga’s ‘I Malavoglia‘.

This timeless story of a struggling family of fishermen is one of the best known works of Italian literature from the nineteenth century.

‘I Malavoglia’, literally ‘the Unwillings’ (an ironic nickname coined, in the Sicilian fashion of the day, by fellow villagers and fisherfolk) are an industrious extended family headed by ‘Ntoni, who fishes from the family’s boat, ‘la Provvidenza’, together with his son, Bastiano, and grandsons.

For generations, hard work and the strength of the family has been enough to ensure survival and respect. But one day, Bastiano’s eldest boy, called ‘Ntoni too, after his grandfather, is drafted to the military. Suddenly the hard-working family is short one set of hands: “nessuno può immaginarne le catastrofiche conseguenze…”

Take a look at the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) to get a better idea of the length, level and format of the material.

The .pdf can be saved on your computer, tablet or smartphone, or printed to study in the traditional way. The Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) also contains a link to the online audio – you can listen to the whole story FREE online, so if you’d just like to work on your listening skills, there’s no need to buy the full version of our ebook at all.

As always, this first week ‘I Malavoglia‘ is 25% off the usual ‘easy reader’ price of £7.99, at just £5.99!

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .ePub and Mobi (Kindle-compatible) versions available at no extra cost (just ask at the time of your order, or email us)
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of words you might not know
• Suitable for students at pre-intermediate level or above
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 07/06/20) just £5.99!
• Download the Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Your ebook will be emailed to you within 24 hours of purchase.

‘I Malavoglia‘, just £5.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Literature series | Or browse our Catalog

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If you enjoyed the first ebook in our new series of ‘Literature’ easy readers, Le avventure di Pinocchio, we’re sure you’ll be pleased to hear that we’ve published another.

This time it’s Luigi Pirandello’s Uno, nessuno e centomila.

Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello’s long-unfinshed novel of a privileged young man who one day realises that the way others perceive him is not the way he has always seen himself. Dissatisfied with the idea that everyone who knows him has a different picture of who he is, based on their own preconceptions, he decides to shake things up!

As always, there’s a Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) so you can get a better idea of the length, level and format of the material.

Save the .pdf on your computer, tablet or smartphone, or print it to study in the old-fashioned way. There’s a link to the online audio in the sample chapter – the whole story is available to listen to FREE online, so if you just want to work on your listening skills, you don’t need to actually buy the full version of the ebook (though it helps…)

This first week only ‘Uno, nessuno e centomila‘ is 25% off the usual ‘easy reader’ price of £7.99, at just £5.99!

• .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
• .ePub and Mobi (Kindle-compatible) versions available at no extra cost (just ask at the time of your order, or email us)
• 8 chapters to read and listen to
• Comprehension questions to check your understanding
• Italian/English glossary of words you might not know
• Suitable for students at intermediate level or above
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 24/05/20) just £5.99!
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Your ebook will be emailed to you within 24 hours of purchase.

‘Uno, nessuno e centomila‘, just £5.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Literature series | Or browse our Catalog

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