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

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

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-Summer-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-Summer-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-Summer-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-Summer-Sale-20%-Off expires at midnight on Sunday 13th July 2025.

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-Summer-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 Summer 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-Summer-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-Summer-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-Summer-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-Summer-Sale-20%-Off expires, at midnight on Sunday 13th July, 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-Summer-Sale-20%-Off

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From Tomorrow Save 20% on Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons

Learning Italian/French/Spanish/German?

From tomorrow (Friday 4th July 2025), our sister website NativeSpeakerTeachers.com is having its 2025 Summer 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!

Anyone on their mailing list will get full details tomorrow (there’s a sign-up form on each page of their site.)

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

Watch out for the email with the coupon code on Monday 7th July 2025!

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

Don’t forget – the EasyReaders.org 2025 Summer Sale ends tonight, June 24th 2025.

Coupon code 2025-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-25%-Off to reduce that by 25%, to just £7.49.

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

Italian | Spanish | French | German

Don’t forget, the coupon code to save 25% on the published prices is 2025-Beach-Reads-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

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

A quick reminder about the EasyReaders.org 2025 Summer Sale, which will end at midnight on June 24th 2025.

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

2025-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-25%-Off expires at midnight on June 24th 2025.

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-Beach-Reads-25%-Off

Use it here:

Italian | Spanish | French | German

EasyReaders.org | Ebooks catalog | Cart

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2025 Summer Sale: Top 10 Ebook Best-Sellers / Last 48 Hours

The 2025 Summer Sale is nearly done. It ends in approximately 48 hours (depending on your time zone.)

So what have other students of Italian been buying, from our extensive ebooks catalog?

Here are the Top 10 best-sellers (data from June 2025):

  1. Italian Workout! B1
  2. 2 giugno 1946 (A2/B1)
  3. The Tenses You Need To Speak Italian
  4. Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level A1/2
  5. Italian Easy Readers ‘Three For Two’ – Level B2/C1
  6. Dante, un’altra marachella (B1/2)
  7. Dante, gatto vagante (B1)
  8. Italian Workout! A2
  9. Italian Workout! B2
  10. Il fazzoletto rosa (A2/B1)

There are, of course, many more options in our online ebooks store for language learners.

Why not explore these categories?

Italian Easy Readers | History/Historical | A Day in the Life of…

Italian LiteratureWorld Literature

Italian Cinema | Opera

Easy Reader Multi-Packs!

Italian-English Parallel Texts

Self-Study Workbooks

All of the above can be found, organised by type and level, in our ebooks catalog.

There are also ‘easy reader’ and ‘parallel text’ ebooks for other languages, for example French, Spanish and German.

Last 48 hours of the 2025 Summer Sale

Don’t forget the 2025 Summer Sale ends on June 24th 2025, which means there are just two full days left to save 25% on the ebooks you’ll need to make progress with the language you’re learning.

Everything in our online ebooks store for language learners is a quarter cheaper for another 48 hours or so (IF you remember to use the coupon code – see below for details.)

Add four ebooks to your shopping cart and you’ll only pay for three of them.

Or buy just one or two, but save 25% anyway!

The coupon code that reduces the total of your order by 25% is:

2025-Beach-Reads-25%-Off

Select from our range of ebooks.

Then, go to your shopping cart and paste in coupon code 2025-Beach-Reads-25%-Off to reduce the cart total by 25%.

Press the ‘Apply coupon’ button and scroll down to verify that the CART TOTAL has been discounted 25% (the individual item prices don’t change, only the total.)

The 2025 Summer Sale coupon code is good until midnight on June 24th 2025 – you can use it as often as you wish until then, with no limit, nor minimum/maximum spend.

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

There are just a few days remaining of the 2025 Summer Sale promotion, which ends on June 24th 2025 (see the P.S below for details).

So still time to use coupon code 2025-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-25%-Off

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

Use coupon code 2025-Beach-Reads-25%-Off on those (the coupon code is only valid until June 24th 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-Beach-Reads-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 Summer Sale 25% discount, remember to use coupon code 2025-Beach-Reads-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 Summer Sale ends June 24th 2025

Until June 24th 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-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-25%-Off into your shopping cart and scroll down to check the cart total has been reduced by 25%.

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

Apply coupon code 2025-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-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 Summer Sale: Italian self-study workbooks -25%!

As part of the 2025 Summer 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 Summer 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 Summer Sale ends June 24th 2025!

Until June 24th 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-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-25%-Off into your shopping cart, then scroll down to check the cart total has been reduced by 25%.

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

Apply coupon code 2025-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-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 Summer 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 Summer Sale ends June 24th 2025

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

Until June 24th 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-Beach-Reads-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-Beach-Reads-25%-Off also works on graded material for learning Spanish, French or German.

Apply coupon code 2025-Beach-Reads-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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2025 Summer Sale: ‘easy reader’ ebook picks at your level!

Last week we announced that our 2025 Summer 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 2025 Summer Sale is on! To get 25% off everything in your shopping cart, copy/paste the coupon code, which is:

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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 Italian easy readers: Colpo di forbici - cover image

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 Italian easy readers - L'ascensore - cover image

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 Cover image: Cielo libero

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 Italian easy readers - 2 giugno 1946 - cover image

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 Easy Italian readers - Dante, gatto vagante - cover image

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 Cover image: Segreti e polpette

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 Italian easy reaaders - Le italiane - cover image

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 Italian easy readers - Prometeo e la guerra dei titani - cover image

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 Italian easy reader ebooks - I racconti della vestale - cover image

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 Italian easy readers - Il vulcano - cover image

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 Easy Italian readers - La Via Francigena - cover image

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 2025!

The prices marked above are the usual, year-round prices but with the Summer Sale promotion (which ends on June 24th 2025) everything in our online store (EasyReaders.org) is 25% cheaper!

Copy and paste the coupon code 2025-Beach-Reads-25%-Off into your shopping cart, then scroll down to check the cart total has been reduced by 25%.

Make your selections today!

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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…

2025-Beach-Reads-25%-Off