Lingo Mastery - Russian Short Stories For Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Russian & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Russian Stories)

What is the following book about? Weve written this book to cover an important issue that seems to affect every new learner of the Russian tongue a lack of helpful reading material. While in English you may encounter tons (or gigabytes, in our modern terms) of easy and accessible learning material, in Russian you will usually and promptly be given tough literature to read by your teachers, and you will soon find yourself consulting your dictionary more than youd want to. Eventually, youll find yourself bored and uninterested in continuing, and your initially positive outlook may soon turn sour. Our goal with this book will be to supply you with useful, entertaining, helpful and challenging material that will not only allow you to learn the language but also help you pass the time and make the experience less formal and more fun like any particular lesson should be. We will not bore you with grammatical notes, spelling or structure: the book has been well-written and revised to ensure that it covers those aspects without having to explain them in unnecessarily complicated rules like textbooks do. If youve ever learned a new language through conversational methods, teachers will typically just ask you to practice speaking.

Here, well teach you writing and reading Russian with stories. Youll learn both how to read it and write it with the additional tools well give you at the end of each story. The stories are for Beginners. What does it mean? We dont want the word to be misleading for you. When thinking about you as a beginner, we focused on combining two things: 1) provide you with easy to understand words and structures; 2) avoid simplistic content. Judging by our extensive experience, its impossible to make any impressive progress by dealing with the material that you are absolutely comfortable with.

Dive into the unknown, make an effort, and youll be rewarded. To make things easier for you, we picked only common words no rocket science, thats for sure. You wont encounter any complex sentences with multiple clauses and prepositions. Just take the last step apply your diligence and work hard to go over to the next level. The suggested steps of working with the book 1) First, just read the story. 2) Then read it again, referring to the vocabulary. 2) Then read it again, referring to the vocabulary.

Note that our vocabulary is much easier to use than a conventional dictionary because: a) the words are listed in order of their appearance in the text; b) the translations are given in the very form you find them in the text; c) the most complex words are given as word combinations to let you grasp the grammatical structure. 3) Now that you think you understand the major plot of the story, check yourself by referring to the summary of the story that is provided both in Russian and English. 4) Go over to the Questions section to check if youve understood the details. 5) Check if you were right in the Answers section. 6) And at last time to enjoy. Read the story once again, getting pleasure from the feeling of great achievement.

You deserved it! What if I dont understand everything? Remember understanding each and every word is not your goal. Your goal is to grasp the essence of the story and enrich your vocabulary. It is absolutely normal that you may not understand some words or structures and that sometimes you may ultimately not entirely understand what the story is about. Were here to help you in any way we can. If you dont know some word and its not in bold (i.e., not in the vocabulary list), then - You may have already encountered it but in a different form. Challenge your attention! - The word may be of an international character.

What could the word [taksi] mean? Right! Its taxi. - Use the context. Lets turn to the taxi example again. What can you possibly do with a taxi? Right, you can call or catch it! Other recommendations for readers of Russian Short Stories for Beginners Before we allow you to begin reading, we have a quick list of some other recommendations, tips and tricks for getting the best out of this book.

1. Read the stories without any pressure: feel free to return to parts you didnt understand and take breaks when necessary. This is like any fantasy, romance or sci-fi book youd pick up, except with different goals.
2. Feel free to use any external material to make your experience more complete: while weve provided you with plenty of data to help you learn, you may feel obliged to look at textbooks or search for more helpful texts on the internet do not think twice about doing so! We even recommend it.
3. Find other people to learn with: while learning can be fun on your own, it definitely helps to have friends or family joining you on the tough journey of learning a new language.

   Find a like-minded person to accompany you in this experience, and you may soon find yourself competing to see who can learn the most!

4. Try writing your own stories once youre done: all of the material in this book is made for you to learn not only how to read, but how to write as well. Liked what you read? Try writing your own story now, and see what people think about it!