The perfect book of short, simple stories for learning Spanish, with online audio! Widely praised by beginners and by parents raising bilingual kids!
28 Bilingual English-Spanish Fairy Tales & Fables is a language learning resource (not a picture book) designed to fuel the improvement of learners of Spanish or English. Engaging and effective for children, teens, and adults, with easy access to online audio files offering professional narration in both languages. A useful, flexible resource for self-study, homeschooling, or classroom use, it includes ideas for learners, parents, and teachers to make the most of this book in order to advance their language learning aims.
The book consists of familiar stories crafted in short, simple texts on dual-facing English and Spanish pages that can benefit a wide range of ages and learning situations:
*Children, monolingual or bilingual, who are developing their language and literacy ability in Spanish and/or English, whether at home or at school.
*Teens and adults who are language learners of Spanish or English, whether studying on their own or in a classroom.
With these enjoyable, text-only stories, learners can focus fully on the target language to strengthen their language skills. This format also offers parents and teachers the flexibility to follow up with their own questions or exercises, if they wish, which can be targeted to the particular needs of their children or students.
About the AuthorBeck, Adam: - Adam Beck is the author of the popular books Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability and Bilingual Success Stories Around the World, both praised worldwide by parents and leaders in the field of child bilingualism for their practical and empowering approach to the bilingual aim. He is also the author of the playful picture book for adults titled I WANT TO BE BILINGUAL! (illustrated by Pavel Goldaev), which emphasizes the most important information parents need for realizing joyful success on a bilingual journey. In addition, he created 28 Bilingual English-Spanish Fairy Tales & Fables, a language learning resource containing short, simple texts on dual-facing English and Spanish pages. This engaging book, with online audio, is useful for any learner of Spanish or English, from kids to adults. Adam is the founder of the influential blog Bilingual Monkeys and the lively forum The Bilingual Zoo. Along with his books and his online writing, he provides empowering support to bilingual and multilingual families through personal coaching, online and off, and through speaking appearances at conferences and workshops worldwide. He is on the consultation team at the Harmonious Bilingualism Network (HaBilNet), led by Annick De Houwer. An educator for over 30 years, Adam has worked with hundreds of bilingual and multilingual children as a classroom teacher and private tutor. Originally from the United States, he has lived in Hiroshima, Japan since 1996 and is raising two trilingual children in Japanese, English, and Spanish. He attended college in New York, graduate school in San Francisco, and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Czech Republic, where he taught English at the University of West Bohemia in the city of Plzen. Adam also has a background in theater arts and worked for many years in children's theater as a director and playwright. He is the author of the award-winning humorous novel for children and adults titled How I Lost My Ear (illustrated by Simon Farrow), which critics have called an extraordinary imaginative achievement and compared to the best of Roald Dahl.