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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
Il gatto nero A1
The Black Cat
Giulia has just moved to Pavia, a small university town in the north of Italy, 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
L'albero della promessa A2
The Promise Tree
Chiara has a new part-time job in a small second-hand bookshop in Spello, a hill town in Umbria. In a box of old books she finds a photograph of two children under a big tree by a little church, and on it a promise: at next year's festival, meet me under this tree. Ada, the old woman who runs the shop, says she has never seen them. Chiara is sure she is not telling the truth.
20 chapters · complete
La trattoria di fronte B1
The Trattoria Across the Street
Elena is twenty-four and runs a tiny trattoria of her own on a busy street in Rome. Her cacio e pepe is what everyone comes for, and the pecorino in it comes by post from Signor Nando, an old cheesemaker in a mountain village. This month the parcel doesn't come, Signor Nando doesn't answer the phone, and a big, loud chain trattoria has just opened across the street, with a queue round the corner and a young cook who seems to know far too much about Elena's pecorino.
20 chapters · complete
L'Albergo Ferretti B2
The Ferretti Inn
Livia has taken a job at the Albergo Ferretti, an old spa inn high in the mountains, 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 Livia.
20 chapters · complete
Il paese dove l'orologio si fermò C1
The Town Where the Clock Stopped
For half a century the clock in the tower of a small snowbound village in the Alps has stood at three, and the village 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 the village seems to want her to. On her first night, the bell of the stopped clock rings once.
20 chapters · complete