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The Twilight Gate by Vincent Tan
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The Twilight Gate

With Tiny Bilingual Russian-English Tales

$6.90

Length 1 hour 11 minutes
Language English
Narrators Nikita Duriagin & Mikhail Menschikov

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Summary

Finally, you can read in Russian with less frustration, anger and tears!

 

You have been learning Russian for a while now. Used a language app (or five). Watched a few YouTube instructional videos. Even took a few private online lessons with a tutor.

 

You want to read in Russian, but finding appropriate material is difficult.

 

The solution is not to dumb down the text, but to shorten it. Way shorter. Think 2 minute movie trailer instead of 2 hour full length movie.

 

This way, you get the benefit of feeling accomplished about finishing the text and increasing your vocabulary, but in a fraction of the time.

 

To this end, this book features 11 tiny tales, each of them only a couple of pages. They range from a police officer in a cheesy romance, to a supernatural encounter in the office, to a space captain who lost all his men fighting alien insects.

 

This is followed by a much longer fantasy story about a knight and a priest saving the world from shadow demons. Each chapter follows the same short length format.

 

Stories (audio included)


  • АББА и диско - ABBA and disco

  • Неминуемый роман с тренером по теннису - Imminent affair with a tennis coach

  • Прыгун - Jumper

  • Посетитель библиотеки - The library visitor

  • Плачущая русалка - The crying mermaid

  • Модельный телохранитель - The model bodyguard

  • Музей для Instagram - Museum for Instagram

  • Поздняя ночная встреча в офисе - Late night office meeting

  • Цветовое зрение - Colour vision

  • Скорбящий мужчина - The grieving man

  • Насекомое-пришелец - Alien insect

  • Врата Сумерек - The Twilight Gate, 19 chapters in all

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