The Twilight Gate With Tiny Bilingual Russian-English Tales

By Vincent Tan

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vincent Tan
• Release date: Jan 2, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224047871

Vincent Tan

Vincent Tan lives in multicultural and multilingual Singapore. He is currently learning Russian, Spanish, Italian, German, French, and Greek (dropped Polish and Swedish). His native languages are English, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and Hokkien. He likes to read fantasy fiction with (lots of) magic. He graduated with a degree in applied mathematics and computational science. He also has experience in software development, artificial intelligence, and cyber security.

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