Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: 8 Modern and Hilarious Short Stories to Improve Your Vocabulary

The traditional methods to learn Spanish have been based on the mechanical repetition of words to learn vocabulary, followed by complex explanations of grammar. Most language students find it boring, some even fall asleep during the process.

One of the fastest ways to learn a new language is by reading interesting and easy to follow short stories. Short stories as a learning method work because they eliminate the agony of forcing yourself to study and learn. Instead, when you read those 8 hilarious Spanish short stories, written by talented authors, you are in the process of successfully learning Spanish. Your objective is to simply focus on a single short story at a time.

All the Spanish short stories are humorously written and consist of multiple genres, including romance, mystery, sauna adventures, “prepper lifestyle”, crowdfunding and crime.

The learning material includes vocabulary and phrase lists, multiple choice questions, exercises & summaries of each story.

Original Spanish Short Stories:

1. Aventuras en la sauna - Sauna Adventures - A mystery story

2. Una familia religiosa - A religious family - Humor

3. Un financiación colectiva diferente - A different type of crowdfunding - Humor

4. Un crucero para amantes - A cruise trip for lovers - Romance

5. Visita de América - Visit from America - Mystery

6. Noche de barbacoa - The barbecue evening - Romance

7. El eremita - The Hermit - Fantasy

8. La mujer de limpieza - The charlady - Humor