Announcing 7 New Languages & Levels of my Short Stories!

Last year, on a cold rainy night in London, I was standing on a podium battling a 40ºC fever (104ºF), attempting to introduce my new books of Short Stories to the waiting crowd.

After 2 years of work, we'd arrived at the official book launch, and Teach Yourself (my publishers) had put on this event at their gorgeous London offices to help celebrate.

And there I was… white as a sheet and struggling to hold it together!

Bad luck!

I somehow made it through the event, made a fairly sharp exit after thanking everyone for coming, and then just about made it home before collapsing in bed for about a week.

A sign of things to come?

Luckily not. In fact, things improved quite quickly.

Shortly after release, the books began selling like hot cakes, as bookshops around the world began stocking them rows deep on shelves.

In fact, my friend Benny Lewis told me on a live stream that, on a recent driving trip, he found my books in every single Barnes & Noble in the US state of Georgia. (Apparently he went to every single store… not sure what he was up to!)

Anyway…

Fast-forward one year, and I hear we've sold over 100,000 copies.

That's a lot of books, and a lot of people around the world reading stories to help them learn languages… this StoryLearning® method has helped them make huge strides forward in their language learning.

And I'm proud to be making this contribution to the language world.

Introducing 7 New Languages

But why stop at six books?

And why stop at the beginner level?

Why indeed!

So, for the last 12 months, behind the scenes, we've been quietly working away at exciting new additions to the stories, for beginner and intermediate level.

New beginner languages:

• Short Stories in Danish for Beginners
• Short Stories in Dutch for Beginners
• Short Stories in Turkish for Beginners
• Short Stories in Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners

New intermediate languages:

• Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners
• Short Stories in Italian for Intermediate Learners
• Short Stories in English for Intermediate Learners

The stories are the same across all the beginner languages, albeit adapted and “localised” to make them appropriate for the target culture.

The intermediate books have a different set of stories – more challenging than the beginner level. (Those stories are also the same across the intermediate books)

Having the same stories across language is a huge advantage.

This is because, if you read more than one language, you can use your familiarity with the content to focus on the language itself. This makes these books a particularly good tool for you if you plan to learn more than one language.

Lastly, I'm particularly pleased to be able to offer books for less well-resourced languages.

Dutch?

Danish?

Turkish?

Your local bookshop isn't exactly bursting with interesting content in these languages… but I'm putting an end to that!

And the good news is that we have lots more language on the way, too! Languages as diverse as Icelandic, Korean and Swedish.

But you'll have to be a little more patient for those. Fear not… I'll tell you all about them when they're ready to be announced! Update – they're here!

Check Out The New Books

For now, head over to my Books Page, where I'll show you how to grab yourself a copy of one of the new books:

CHECK OUT THE NEW BOOKS NOW

Notes:

1. For new editions, it takes Amazon some time to update new covers. So, if you see an old cover for the book you're looking for, be sure to select the “new edition” from the menu!)
2. Some books will be released later in some countries. If that's you, please pre-order the books as normal, and you'll get them delivered the day they come out where you are!

Olly Richards

Creator of the StoryLearning® Method

Olly Richards is a renowned polyglot and language learning expert with over 15 years of experience teaching millions through his innovative StoryLearning® method. He is the creator of StoryLearning, one of the world's largest language learning blogs with 500,000+ monthly readers.

Olly has authored 30+ language learning books and courses, including the bestselling "Short Stories" series published by Teach Yourself.

When not developing new teaching methods, Richards practices what he preaches—he speaks 8 languages fluently and continues learning new ones through his own methodology.