Spanish–English parallel stories for adult beginners
CEFR A1–A2 short stories with facing English, short glossaries, and comprehension checks — built for relocators and working adults, not cute-animal filler.
- Parallel text
- Adult tone
- Series model
Why this shape
Amazon already hosts bilingual beginner readers (e.g. parallel-text novels and A1 short-story packs with hundreds of ratings). The gap we aim for is consistent CEFR scaffolding + human-edited Spanish, not machine-translated spam.
Sample chapter outline (not the full text)
Working title: El primer día en la oficina / First day at the office · ~800–1,200 words ES + parallel EN.
- Arrival & greeting (tú/usted note)
- Small talk — high-frequency verbs
- One workplace hiccup + polite requests
- Resolution + series hook
Each chapter: glossary (8–12 lemmas) · 5 comprehension questions · 3 production prompts · max 2 false-friend callouts.
Market signal (Amazon.com snapshots 2026-09-26)
- La Casa (Arenas) — 4.4★ / 215 ratings · Books BSR ~#1.3M
- CEFR A1–A2 “50 bilingual tales” (Lingo) — Kindle listing live
- A1 “10 easy narratives” family — 4.8★ / 232 · Kindle BSR ~#9k on one fetch
Ranks move hourly. No Keyword Planner volumes claimed. Re-fetch before any paid push.
Next (gated)
Write Chapter 1 fully → KDP ebook draft → soft launch. Cover typography-first. AI-assisted text will be disclosed per KDP rules if used.
This page is a research PoC from the Brújula research pipeline. Not affiliated with Amazon.