This week, EasyReaders.Org published a new ebook ‘easy reader’ for students of Italian.
It’s called La Via Francigena, and tells of the author’s 20-day, 300 kilometer trek down the pilgrim’s trail from Lucca in Tuscany to Rome, where he lives (and teaches Italian.)
This is an excellent read, comes with free online audio, and includes many stimulating exercises.
Better still, it’s 25% off the usual ‘easy reader’ price, at just £5.99, instead of £7.99.
What’s not to like?
Um…
It’s a C2 level.
Which means that for a typical student of Italian, it’s going to be too hard, with complex language and an audio recorded at normal, native-speaker speed.
But I don’t want to put you off.
Check it for yourself by clicking on the free sample chapter download link below.
And the audio?
You’ll find the link to the free online audio – the WHOLE story – at the top of Chapter 1).
La Via Francigena (C2) £5.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)
Too fast, right?
Never mind.
Roberto, the author with the blisters, has done other ebooks for us, too.
And at various levels.
Below you’ll find details of all his previous ‘easy reader’ ebooks in level order, from the simplest to the most complex (and all with free sample chapters, and free online audio!)
Take a look.
There’s SURE to be something that you’ll enjoy!
A1-level (elementary)
Antonio and Martina have been married for forty years and together run their own hairdressing salon. Naturally, they know everyone’s secrets, and like to help people if they can…
Colpo di forbici (A1) £7.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)
Rosa is a good mother and an excellent grandmother… but an awful cook! When Valeria, Rosa’s health-conscious daughter, has a domestic emergency, Rosa is left to prepare lunch for her two grandchildren…
Rosa la cuoca disastrosa (A1) £7.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)
A1/2-level (pre-intermediate)
Two neigbours, who have long argued about noise levels in their apartment building, are stuck in a lift together. They press the alarm button, but no one answers their call for help…
L’ascensore (A1/2) £7.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)
The Circo Garotti is the most famous circus in Italy. But lately its owner, Alvise, has been troubled by the disappearance of some of the circus’s performing animals… Can Alvise find out the truth behind these mysterious events?
Mistero al Circo Garotti (A1/2) £7.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)
A2/B1-level (low intermediate)
Bologna, 2nd of June 1946. Italy is slowly recovering from the devastating effects of World War II. A referendum has been organised to decide whether the reborn state will be a republic or continue as a monarchy. And for the first time in history, Italian women can go to the polls! Newly-wed Marcella is so excited at the prospect she barely slept last night. But her husband, Antonio, is unconvinced…
2 giugno 1946 (A2/B1) £7.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)
B1/B2-level (intermediate)
A politician, a prisoner, a child in hospital: a cast of characters imagine what the future holds for them in these eight short stories based on the use of the Italian future tense (plus, a riddle to solve!)
Le tante facce del futuro (B1/2) £7.99 Download FREE sample (.pdf)
B2-level (upper-intermediate)
A cool-headed resistance fighter, an Oscar-winning actor, a doctor, a singer, an Olympian, an astronaut, a TV presenter, and a victim of the mafia. What do they all have in common?
Read and listen to the moving stories of these eight determined Italian women to find out!
Le italiane (B2) £7.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)
C2-level (very advanced)
“Venti giorni di cammino, di fatica, di entusiasmo e di scoperta. Venti giorni di avventura lungo una delle vie più importanti d’Europa, percorsa, negli ultimi mille anni, da principi, imperatori, cardinali, pellegrini, viandanti, giovani, vecchi, bambini, donne, uomini e animali. Una via che racchiude in sé la storia del nostro Paese, una storia fatta di accoglienza, generosità, passione e paesaggi mozzafiato: la Via Francigena.”
Join Italian teacher and author, Roberto Gamberini as he walks this famous route of pilgrimage from Lucca in Tuscany to Rome in Lazio.
La Via Francigena (C2) £5.99 | Download FREE sample (.pdf)
Still nothing?
We’ve published around a hundred ebooks for people learning Italian, including lots by other talented Italian teachers.
See them all, organised by level, on the Catalog page.
All have free sample chapters, so you can work up from easiest to hardest, level by level, downloading the free sample .pdfs until you find something that’s suitable for the point you’ve reached with your Italian.
Buona lettura!
