Serena's "Easy-Readers" integrates language learning and storytelling -- providing a refreshing take on Italian language acquisition. Its methodical focus on repetition and application transforms readers from passive observers to active participants. Each tale, set against the backdrop of a different city, introduces useful vocabulary and common expressions used in daily Italian life. The book's structure, with bite-sized chapters and recall activities, ensures easy comprehension and retention. It's an inspiring blend of education and entertainment that makes learning Italian a joy.

I LOVE Serena’s books and hopes she write more for Intermediate level. This book will help you learn colloquial Italian and new vocab through beautiful and engaging love stories. I am a huge fan of the translation exercises and preposition challenges at the end of each chapter. I read it through once and now and working on shadowing each chapter. 10/10 recommend!

This little book has a lot of content and exercises to use for advancing to another level. A really good companion for Duolingo, which I'm also using.

Another excellent Italian book from the author, Serena Capilli, who is a passionate writer and teacher of Italian. This book – “7 Romance Short Stories for Italian Language Learners” - is an intermediate level gem filled with both compelling love stories and well-placed grammatical aids. It is packed with useful everyday idioms and their English translations, rich vocabulary, and each story ends with great writing exercises. If you want to improve your Italian you should buy this book.

Great little book to help with reading comprehension. I have been studying but wanted to try these. They’re great - you can refer back time and time again. I will try others.

This is not the first book I've read by this author. And, this one did not disappoint! In fact, it might be my favorite one yet. The stories are intermedite level, short and sweet and it feels good to know that I've understood and yet to also learn some new vocabulary. For me, the best and most useful are the exercises at the end of each story -- translating dialogue from English to Italian and fill in the blank exercises on prepositions. The answer key tells me that I have more work to do but I am so motivated to continue my Italian language journey! I appreciate the thought that went in to crafting these great stories and exercises. It's clear that she loves her profession as a language teacher and writer and wants all of us to succeed!

One critique - I was surprised to see the theme of broken relationships between gay men playing out in this tiny format! This was a long running theme in Italian movies until very recently, where gay men either die, get very ill or are punished by "God" in some other way by the end of the movie. Basta.