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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

Puntoycoma Various Authors Issue 35, March-April 2012, 46pp and issue 36, May-June 2012, 50pp (Punto y Coma is an audio magazine, published six times a year, for intermediate to advanced speakers of Spanish. It comes with an printed magazine and audio CD.) I had never…

Vida Hispánica Spring 2012 No. 45Punto y Coma

I love Tutto. I love Italy. I love the Italian people. Through this magazine I discover so many things about Italy I just wouldn’t know about otherwise. Like, for instance, the recent article on the two antiquarian libraries in Verona and Rome, or the feature…

Mary Holmes, Heidelberg, GermanyTutto italiano

Beginners looking to immerse themselves in the language will find plenty of help in Bien-dire Initial. Printed 6 times a year, the 52-page magazine is packed with lively articles that will introduce learners to a range of grammatical structures and vocabulary. Topics include travel, business,…

France Magazine, June 2017Bien-dire Initial

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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.

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