7 Amusing Spanish Fairy Tales For Language Learning

Do you like fairy tales? Of course, you do. Everyone likes them. They are super fun and engaging, making you enter another exciting world full of wisdom, magic, and all the glittery things every kid likes.

Oh, you’re not a kid? That’s not a problem at all. Fairy tales aren’t reserved only for kids. Adults can still enjoy them, too.

And while we are talking about fairy tales, did you know that you can learn Spanish with them? That’s one more exciting and unconventional way to learn Spanish efficiently. Not only will you add one more learning method to your list to become fluent in Spanish but you will also have so much fun!

Let’s take a look at the 7 amusing Spanish fairy tales that can help you learn Spanish. Let’s get started!

How Spanish Fairy Tales Help You With Language Learning?

Besides being engaged and fun, fairy tales are an ideal learning tool, and here’s why.

• Basic sentences and vocabulary. Being focused primarily on children, fairy tales consist of simple sentences and basic words and phrases they can understand.

• Fairy tales are short. One more important thing for kids. They can’t stay focused on one thing for a long time, so fairy tales are made not to belong.

• Useful lessons about differences. Fairy tales come from all parts of the world so they are an ideal insight into different cultures and traditions. It helps kids to understand differences but also to give them the possibility to understand them and help them realize about other experiences.

• Always have a happy ending. Do you know some fairy tales that don’t end with ‘happily ever after?’ No, you don’t. Every fairy tale has a happy ending where good characters get rewarded and the bad ones punished for what they’ve done. That is motivational to see that good deeds are something we all should aim for.

7 Amusing Spanish Fairy Tales With Happy Ending For Learning Spanish

Cenicienta (Cinderella)

Cenicienta isn’t a typical Spanish fairy tale but a universal one.

Everyone knows about a beautiful and sweet girl and her evil stepmother and two stepsisters who made her a servant in her own house. However, like in every fairy tale, she meets a prince, falls in love with him and they get married and live happily ever after.

If this fairy tale is one of your favorites, click on the following link to watch and listen to it. You’ll enjoy it and get back to your most wonderful and amusing part of life.

El Enano Saltarin (Rumpelstiltskin)

You have surely heard of this story as a kid. And you’ve surely imagined that everything you touch turns into gold.

Well, now you can go back and enjoy the fairy tale one more time. This time, it will be both useful and fun.

Useful because you will practice your reading and listening skills to improve Spanish and learn new words and expressions, and fun because the story is so amusing.

So, ‘había una vez…’

El Traje Nuevo de Emperador (The Emperor’s New Groove)

If you want to recall this amusing and fun story about an emperor who was so vain that no one could tell him something that would offend him in any way. Until one day, when a tailor came to the palace, claiming that he can sew a suit so amazing that no one in the world has.

Vain emperor agreed, of course, and as a result, he got a really unique suit...until one kid didn’t say out loud the whole truth. 

How did the kid discover the whole, so obvious, truth?

It’s up to you to discover and only in Spanish.

Los Tres Chivitos Traviesos (The Three Billy Goats Gruff)

The three goats, three brothers, lived in the mountains in a goat village.

And what do goats eat? Yes, grass. There’s plenty of grass in the summer, but what about the winter? They decided to go to the mountains in winter to find green grass. And their journey began. 

If you don’t know what happened next, you should give the Spanish version of the story a chance and read it on the following link. No matter if you’ve just started learning the language.

The sentences are simple, the words and phrases easily recognized, and there’s also an English translation after each paragraph.

Los Zapatos Rojos (The Red Shoes)

A worldwide-known fairy tale about a little girl who dances in her red shoes she took from her foster mother before she passed away. After she accidentally comes across a mysterious soldier with a red beard, telling her that her shoes are beautiful and not to ever take them off while dancing, makes the girl’s life a nightmare. The shoes are dancing all the time. In the end, the girl prays for mercy and peace, she got from an angel, where her heart burst out of peace and joy so her soul goes to Heaven where no one even mentioned the red shoes.

The fairy tale doesn’t have such a happy ending we are used to, but from a learner’s point of view, this story is useful because you can learn some basic Spanish vocabulary and common Spanish phrases as well as practice different colors.

Pollito Tito (The Chicken Little)

It is a story about a chicken called Pollito Tito. He is an ordinary chicken, living an ordinary life in an ordinary chicken town.

One day, while having breakfast, Pollito Tito read a newspaper’s headline and got really scared.

What did he find out and why did he get so scared? 

Listen to the story on the following link in Spanish and find out. 

Moreover, if you want to memorize words and phrases easily use flashcards as a learning tool.

Some clever people created flashcards especially for Pollito Tito, so you’ve got all prepared.

Rapunzel (Rapunzel)

Rapunzel is a beautiful girl with long hair. Do you remember? She does have really, really long hair. She lived in a small tower without stairs. Her long hair was the rope an evil witch was climbing to her small rooms every afternoon, a witch who locked her in that tower.

But one day something will change.

And now, If you want to recall what exactly changed, you have to read the story in Spanish. 

But, don’t worry. The story has a happy ending.

Final Thoughts

Spanish fairy tales increase the chance of effective language learning because they are synonyms for fun and happiness.

And when you’re having fun you learn better.

So, besides these 7 amusing Spanish fairy tales that can help you with your language skills, ask Spanish tutors for more. Or even better ask them to tell you some of the Spanish fairy tales. In return, you can tell them some stories about your culture. In Spanish, of course. 

And don’t forget to have fun!