App Detail » Read in Spanish: Maldito gato (with translation and audio)

What's New

Added a missed bit of audio

App Description

Read a fresh today's spanish short story in it’s original version and enjoy with his acid humor. The plot goes about the funny and surrealistic confession of a gardener that faces the missing of Billy Joe, an english old man’s cat.

If you don’t understand a sentence, touch it and read it in English

‘eBBi Books’ presents a short story with which you can enjoy, study and practice the most important aspects of the Spanish language.

The tale, ‘Maldito gato’’ is in Dubbuk format. You know: if you don’t understand a sentence, touch it and get the Spanish integrated translation.

A one-of-a kind stuff!.

You get:
- Text and audio in Spanish
- Great quality audio in Spanish from Spain.
- Translation of the whole text to English.
- Fully illustrated
- All Dubbuk features:
· Word Reference bilingüal dictionary look-up available for each word.
· You can read in two columns, one in Spanish and the other in English.
· Listen separately to individual sentences as many times as you want.

Practice key aspects of Spanish language for advanced level

Refresh and improve your Spanish in a pleasant way.

Advance and practice listening with a funny text.


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Author: Gema Martínez
Translation: María Jiménez
Illustrations: Enrique Bernal
Voice: Victor Bernal


Text and audio: Spanish
Translation: English
Dictionary: wordreference.com
+2500 palabras
+20 min of audio
Advanced level - Original text
Voice in Spanish from Spain

-------- ‘Maldito gato’: Presentation and synopsis--------
A gardener working in a rural hotel is entrusted by the owners, an “old English man and his little blonde girl”, to take care of their pets. The disappearance of Billy Joe, the cat, unleashes a frantic and surrealistic plot with tragic consequences that the paranoid main character fails to assume.

Maldito gato won the 2009 Fuentetaja Short Stories Award and was published in the collective book ‘Asentamientos’.

-------- What is Dubbuk?---------
Books in Dubbuk format incorporate a new technology that allow you to read in Spanish in a comfortable and fluent way, as it integrate text, professional translation, audio and bilingual dictionary.

--------- Ebbi Books ---------
We publish original and adapted texts in Dubbuk format for different levels of reading. In addition, all our books are illustrated and have a very careful edition

App Changes

• June 08, 2014 Initial release
• July 21, 2014 New version 2.0.5
• July 28, 2014 New version 2.0.6