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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.

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

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

Italian | French | Spanish | German | All languages

P.S.

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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Here’s that coupon code again: 2020-Summer-Sale-20%-Off

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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Today’s bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news is ready to read/listen to, and it’s FREE! Click here to take a look.

Subscribing is also FREE – just add your email address on this page and we’ll email each thrice-weekly edition as soon as it’s published!

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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Have you listened to today’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news yet? If not, click here to give it a go.

N.b. There’s no reason to wait for reminders like this one in order to work on building your Italian reading and listening skills. Subscribing to EasyItalianNews.com is FREE – just add your email address on this page and we’ll email you each thrice-weekly edition!

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

P.S.

Today’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news comprises ten minutes of audio read by an Italian native speaker, plus the transcript written by Italian teachers. Click here to listen and read.

Subscribing is also FREE – just add your email address on this page to get each thrice-weekly edition sent directly to your email address.

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

P.S.

Have you listened to today’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news? It’s free!

And if you subscribe – that’s also FREE – we’ll email you each thrice-weekly simplified Italian news bulletin!

Enter your email address on this page. Over six thousand people already have!

Culture vulture, but not yet ready to read classic works of Italian literature in the original?

Then check out the first ebook easy reader in our new Italian Literature Series: ‘Le avventure di Pinocchio‘, Carlo Collodi’s classic children’s story of a talking puppet running riot, now rewritten for students of Italian like you!

Pinocchio is a wooden puppet but alive nonetheless! Just like a real child, he’s prone to disobedience and telling lies. He runs away from his loving father and refuses to go to school. But, thanks to a colorful cast of villains, a fairy, and a talking cricket, after many adventures…

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 ‘Le avventure di Pinocchio‘ 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 beginner/elementary levels or above
• LAUNCH OFFER (until 06/05/20) just £5.99!
• Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

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

‘Le avventure di Pinocchio‘, just £5.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Or browse our Catalog

P.S.

Don’t forget to listen to today’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news!

Better still, if you subscribe, which is also FREE, we’ll email each thrice-weekly simplified Italian news bulletin (text plus online audio) as soon as it is published!

Just enter your email address on this page. Nearly six thousand people already have!

Like poems? So do we, here at EasyReaders.org.

In fact, during the present gloom and doom, we’ve been cheering ourselves up by re-reading some verses we wrote a year ago, when the world was a very different place!

You’ll be unaware, but our ebook cover-designer, Anya Lauri, is also a talented illustrator. So last spring we had the crazy idea to email her some of our poems to see what she would make of them.

The result was a hilarious illustrated ebook.

What’s that monstrosity on the cover, you might be wondering?

It’s the submarine bird, of course, a flying pest that, last spring, used to wake me up long before dawn each morning.

If anyone knows what sort of bird it could be (read the poem in the free sample chapter .pdf for a fuller description) do write to let me know!

Download the free sample chapter (.pdf) to get a flavour of the poetry. Mostly it doesn’t rhyme, but it IS at least guaranteed to include no mention whatsoever of viruses…

And to enjoy more of Anya’s illustrations, of course. That’s me above, with the glasses and the quill pen. And you’ll find the submarine bird perched in a tree on page twenty-seven, being ignored by all the other birds…

‘No Permit’s Required’ is a 113-page .pdf format ebook containing “some verses for those who like to laugh or ponder”.

Get the full version this week and save 25%!

Find out more | FREE sample (.pdf) | Buy ‘No Permit’s Required, just £8.99

Don’t forget – the 2020 Spring Sale ends tonight, Sunday 29th March.

Coupon code …

Spring-Sale-2020

… is currently valid on EVERYTHING at easyreaders.org (online lessons with native speaker teachers, ebooks for learning languages, ‘easy readers’, ‘parallel texts’ etc.) …

but expires tonight!

Ten thirty-minute online lessons with a native speaker teacher (Italian, French, Spanish, German…) would normally cost you £150

But with the coupon code?

Just £120 (£12 a lesson).

And the ebook ‘easy readers’ (simplified texts + audio) or ‘parallel texts’ (simplified texts + translations), which are ideal for supplementing a more traditional language course, normally cost £7.99.

But are just £6.39 each with the coupon code.

For a few more hours, at least…

Stock up on the lesson credits and study materials you need now, while there’s still time!

Browse the catalogue.

Or go directly to the language you’re studying:

Italian | French | Spanish | German | Other languages

Don’t forget, the coupon code to use in your cart to reduce the published prices by a full 20% is:

Spring-Sale-2020

(The next sale won’t be until July…)

A quick reminder about the EasyReaders.Org 2020 Spring Sale, which is ending soon, at midnight on Sunday 29th March.

The cost of EVERYTHING at easyreaders.org – 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:

Spring-Sale-2020

For example?

Well, ten thirty-minute online lessons with a native speaker teacher (Italian, French, Spanish, German…) would normally cost you £150 (just £15 a lesson).

But with the above coupon code, that figure is reduced to just £120 (£12 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?

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 Spring-Sale-2020 to reduce the cart total by 20%.

Remember: the coupon code is only good until tomorrow night, Sunday 29th March.

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:

Spring-Sale-2020

Browse the catalog now!

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