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One story for each level, told a short chapter at a time, by email each morning if you like. Each chapter brings in a few new words and keeps using the ones before, so the story grows with you.
How to read it
- Read at your level: you should know about eight words in ten. Pick the level where that's true.
- Look at the title and the set-up line first. They give you the scene.
- Read the whole chapter through without stopping to look things up. Just follow the story.
- Pause: what happened, and to whom? The questions help.
- Read it again with the help on: the words glossed, the English for each sentence, the notes.
- Keep going: the next chapter comes tomorrow.
Make a free account and the next chapter comes each morning, at your level and your pace.
The stories
El gato negro A1
The Black Cat
Lucía has just moved to Cuenca, a small old city in the middle of Spain, to study. On her first morning a black cat is waiting at her door with a scrap of paper in its mouth, and on the paper is a number. Every morning the cat comes back, and every morning the number is different.
20 chapters · complete
El árbol de la promesa A2
The Promise Tree
Marta, a university student, starts a part-time job in an old second-hand bookshop in Ronda. In a box of old books she finds a photograph of two children under a big tree beside a hermitage, and on it a promise: next year, at the fiesta, meet me under this tree. Carmen, the old woman who runs the shop, says she has never seen them. Marta is sure she is not telling the truth.
20 chapters · complete
El bar de enfrente B1
The Bar Across the Street
Inés is twenty-four and runs a tiny tapas bar of her own in a street in León. Her potatoes with blue-cheese sauce are what everyone comes for, and the cheese comes by post from don Ramiro, an old cheesemaker in a mountain village in Asturias. This month the parcel doesn't come, don Ramiro doesn't answer the phone, and a big, loud chain bar has just opened across the street with a queue round the corner and a young cook who seems to know far too much about Inés's cheese.
20 chapters · complete
La Posada Olmedo B2
The Olmedo Inn
Noelia has taken a job at the Posada Olmedo, an old inn in a little spa village in the mountains of southern Spain, but she is not really there to work: her company wants to buy the inn, and her boss has sent her to find out what it is worth. From her first night things start going wrong, one after another, and always when it matters most. Someone at the inn is not what they seem. Then again, neither is Noelia.
20 chapters · complete
El pueblo donde se paró el reloj C1
The Town Where the Clock Stopped
For half a century the clock in the tower of a small snowbound mining town in the mountains of León has stood at three, and the town lives on the story of why: on the night of the great snow, they say, it stopped by itself. Now the mayor has hired Irene, a clock repairer from the city, to make it go again, and nobody in town seems to want her to. On her first night, the bell of the stopped clock rings once.
20 chapters · complete