Description
Learn Italian with parallel texts: an original story in Italian with an accompanying English translation!
A young artist, who can’t pay his rent, offers to paint his landlord’s flat instead. But guess who the landlord’s daughter turns out to be?
- .pdf e-book
- original text in Italian / translation in English
- 8 short chapters to read and study
- Suitable for students at any level
- Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)
How do I access my ebook?
When your order is ‘completed’ (allow up to 24 hours), 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 (.mobi/Kindle-compatible, .epub) cannot be downloaded but will be emailed to people who request them.
Parallel Texts – How To View The Chapters Side-By-Side!
Viewing the chapters of your parallel text ebook side by side (so as to compare the different languages) is not hard, but probably won’t happen automatically.
There are a few simple, free things you’ll need to do first.
The file is a .pdf so will open with whatever the default .pdf reader on your device is.
These can vary and will probably NOT show the chapters side-by-side, as intended.
For this reason, we recommend the free Adobe Reader, which is installed on many computers in any case.
If you don’t have it, download it here (though I’d suggest un-checking the ‘Optional Offers’…)
Once you have Adobe Reader installed, this is what you do:
- Download the file
- Don’t just click on it or it will open in a browser, which probably works differently
- Instead, view it in your device’s downloads file
- Open with Adobe Reader (right click on the file, choose ‘Open with’, select Adobe Reader)
- In Adobe Reader…
- Look in the menu (at the top) for ‘View’, then choose ‘Page display’
- Choose ‘two page view’ (for the parallel text) or ‘single page view’ for normal documents
- Use ‘View’ / ‘Read mode’ to make the text larger or smaller so that it fits your screen
- Use the ‘zoom’ and ‘page up/down’ buttons to navigate through the book
Karen (verified owner) –
I enjoyed reading this story. It is an interesting and sweet love story about a struggling artist. I wanted the story to continue. I am hoping for a sequel.
jan (verified owner) –
Really enjoyed this lovely story. Suited me to have the English parallel text as this is just above my level, but chosen particularly to provide a challenge. Satisfying to know that I have learned so much Italian through the 1:1 Skype lessons, and equally good that reading this book has provided new vocabulary and something to aim for. I shall read it over and over. Great value too
Angela (verified owner) –
Today I read this book again, it is a lovely story not too complicated and I found myself completely absorbed in it. I am trying to reach B2 level so have been attempting harder books. This was a pleasure to read and although easier it was not too easy.
And I am likely to read it again.
Lynne F –
After reading a few texts at a lower level I felt it was time to take the challenge and move to the next! The storyline was simple which meant I wasn’t distracted by a complex plot. I surprised myself with how much I could understand. I also now know my next learning steps. It is good that the English text follows each chapter which meant that I wasn’t tempted to look until I had read it in Italian but then could ensure I had understood it properly before moving on to the next chapter. I have just ordered three more books and look forward to the challenge of reading them.