Italian Stories: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Italian)

Good stories, great way to learn the language. Not too difficult, more of A2 or to B1 level.

You really have to have a pretty decent handle on a little more than just basic Italian. I bought this one and another like it to help me continue with learning to speak Italian. I am beyond "Beginner" but not at all advanced. The book tells you which stories are easiest, on up to hardest to read, so you can start with the easy (they are not printed in that order in the book) and work your way up. When you get stumped on a sentence or a word, you can refer to the opposite page, and of course it repeats here and there throughout the story and/or the book so it helps to reinforce those new words or phrases as you go. I like it a lot, but you have to have "quiet" time where you can "focus" on your reading if you're using this as a learning tool.

I choose to give this 5-stars for several reasons:pros":* Great translation (for what can be given to translate Florentine dialectal Italian)* Great book for the eager Italian student to either continue studying more Italian or simply wanting more ITalian literature* This text covers great interesting novelle that are very entertaining (I recommend "The Decameron" for more)cons:* Although there is a clear-cut translation that allows the reader to follow line-by-line, there could have been a better translation* on a side note, it might be helpful to have an Italian-English dictionary at hand as there are some English words even I can understand.

I give this book a low rating because it is advertised as suitable for students of Italian, but is simply not a good tool for beginning students. I am a beginner student who can speak basic Italian fairly well, but I had much difficulty with this book! It actually worsened my Italian some with confusing, outdated words.My significant other is from Italy. After speaking with him (a very well educated person who attended liceo classico - Italian high school focusing on grammar, literature, history, and philosophy) and other Italians, I found that the stories in this book are for very advanced students who can already speak Italian.Many of the words in these old stories are no longer used in speaking today. If you are trying to learn Italian, do not buy this book. If you are fluent in Italian, but your first language is English, and you want to learn about Italian history and culture, this book is good for you.

Very nicely done, with translation on the facing pages, and a glossary, but I'm afradi I was only able to get through the first two storeis- albeit with a lot of cross-reference to the translation. Still, very nicely done. Use it if you're Intermediate to skilled speaker.

As another reviewer said, this is a book for the serious student of Italian literature, but I found it to be overwhelming. Still, I could read the stories in the English version on the facing pages.

To tell you the truth, if you're a beginnin or intermediate student, this product is a bit much. It's for the more advanced student. Frankly, I'm hoping I will get to the point that I can read this book,but I am not there yet. For the advanced student, it's great.

I chose this book because I thought that it might help me with my Itlian language. It is easy to look up the translation when needed and it does help. The literature , however , is 18th century and it is ok but I was hoping for something more modern.

Good read for my very senior mom in her native language!!!! Thanks

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everything I hoped it would be

complex writing but nonetheless poetic and interesting

Excellent