And indeed, the program includes software to allow you to create your own little popups with your own little translations for the difficult words. Although the translation for words that one does not know may be given via a "hover" mechanism in German, you can easily look them up in a Spanish-English dictionary, which you would have to do anyway.
They include an audio CD which you can simply listen to as well as a CD-ROM with the story displayed on the screen while the narrator reads the words.ĭo not be thrown off by the fact that the publisher is a German company. Seb79, you might find a few of the audio-books from digitalpublishing helpful. This might be a good idea to see if it's at a good level for you and if it's interesting. It's not great literature, but it's something you'll probably be able to understand.Ī bit more advanced, Mario Vargas Llosa's books are selling quite well these days, what with his winning the Nobel Peace Prize recently.Īnd this site (of a Peruvian magazine) lets you download as a PDF the first chapter of some recently released books. Just from what I can gather from your question and that your profile says your Spanish level is 'intermediate' I would say that you might have good luck with books aimed at teens. People seem to like the Harry Potter books for this, but I can't comment personally on this as I haven't done it myself. Now, I know that Spanish translations of English books are often rife with errors and also that it really is different reading a book in its original source language, but just for your first foray into reading Spanish novels, you might want to try a book you've already read in English, as this will be much easier. I don't mean to be unhelpful, I'm just trying to figure out what to recommend to you. Also, if you have read any books in Spanish, it would be helpful to know what they are so we can judge what level of vocabulary and other aspects of linguistic complexity you're up for and give you books that will stretch your brain a bit but not be so difficult that you'll give up on them. What type of books do you like? If you mention some genres or titles you like in English, people will be able to make better and more relevant recommendations.
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