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Audio magazines in French, Spanish, and Italian: real articles about life and culture, graded by level, with audio read by native speakers.

Choose your language

French, Spanish, Italian or German – or Chinese, Russian, English and Latin for schools.

Our audio magazines

Lively, up-to-date articles from France, Spain and Latin America, and Italy, with the difficult words explained and an audio edition so you can listen as you read. Bien-dire Initial is for beginners and improvers; the others take you from intermediate to advanced.

Why learners subscribe

Real, up-to-date reading

Culture, travel, current affairs and everyday life – the language as it is used today, not as it is in a textbook.

Graded by level

Articles are graded on the CEFR scale, so you can choose what suits you and see your progress. What do the levels mean?

Listen as you read

Each issue comes with audio of the key articles, read by professional native-speaking narrators – on CD or as an MP3 download.

No-quibble guarantee

If a magazine isn’t for you, tell us within two months of your first issue: we’ll refund your subscription in full, and you keep the issue.

What people say about our magazines

I regularly use Bien Dire with my students. It is an excellent learning aid for my intermediate French students. The magazine is well structured and illustrated and it has a clear user-friendly layout. It is well thought out, for example, a colour-coded system indicates the…

Marie-Ange Danthois, French TeacherBien-dire

I am a Spanish teacher in the secondary school as well as an interpreter/translator. I use this magazine for myself to sharpen and improve my language and I always get something out of it. It's designed for the honors high school or college level learner,…

JosephPunto y Coma

Tutto fa brodo! one of my first Italian teachers used to say. Just as everything goes into the broth to make a rich soup, every form of Italian—books, newspapers, magazines, CDs, movies, podcasts—goes into learning the language. The aptly named TUTTO ITALIANO, a bi-monthly audio…

Dianne Hales, author of the bestselling novels La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian and Mona Lisa: A Life DiscoveredTutto italiano

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For teachers and schools

Eli’s graded language magazines bring real, topical reading into the classroom, from absolute beginners to advanced students, in French, German, Italian, Spanish, English, Chinese, Russian and Latin. The more copies you order for a class, the lower the price per copy – and we can invoice your school.

Courses and audio guides

Michel Thomas courses in 17 languages, Spanish readers and courses from Habla con Eñe, and the Bien-dire Essentials audio guides.

Not sure which magazine is right for you?

Our guide to the language levels will help you find your level – or just ask us. We’re happy to advise.

Call us on 0800 141 2210 (UK Freephone) or +44 117 927 2236 from outside the UK, or email support@languages-direct.com.

Call us toll free on 1-866-467-4946 from the US and Canada, or email support@languages-direct.com.