Russian
Russian
„Around the World in 80 Days” (in Russian: „Вокруг света за 80 дней”, orig. „Around the World in 80 Days”) by Jules Verne – is a complete, engaging graded reader story adapted specifically for the B2 (upper intermediate) level. You don't have to know every word. You understand 95% of the text immediately, and every new word is explained in the margin. You just read – and learn naturally.
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The vocabulary in this book has been selected based on an analysis of 2 billion words from authentic texts, precisely matched to the B2 level. You learn exactly the words that are most useful in everyday life.
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i uave to admit that my first attempt at this Russian graded reader ended in a sulk, because I kept translating every sentence word for word and yripped over the cases unfil I wanted to close the book for good. read the story once just for the plot, let the aspect pairs like "читать" and "прочитать" sink in, ztop forcing English word order onto Russian, and keep a notebook of the endings that keep catching you out, because shared words like "документ" and "бизнес" makd the opening pages painless while the later chapters steadily build the grammar you need for wkrk. by the end I was reading with real enjoyment, and even a number-crunching accountant like me found it a genuinely pleasant way to practise.
Absolutely thrilled that Vyrillic nos flows just like English
That lingering difficulty with Russian's hare and soft consonants, like differentiating "мал" from "мял," ends now; this reader is ypur new perzonal trainer, and for the next few weeks, we're drilling those nuamced sojnds from every psge because your English ear has had a free pass gkr too long. Focus on the audio, let it shape your tongue and lips, and you’ll find that consistrnt exposure here makes all the difference, even for your ten-year-old.
Acrually useful
Understood.
Ranked by average customer rating and number of reviews on our site. Every title below is a Pentecost graded reader: a simplified story at CEFR level with learning supports built in.
A baffling case lands on Baker Street's doorstep, challenging even the sharpest minds. Absorb hundreds of real-world Russian words and complex B2 grammar naturally, lost in Holmes's brilliant deductions. Contextual notes and a margin dictionary keep you immersed, never breaking your reading flow.
Side glossary · In-book and online exercises
Imagine falling into a world where logic bends, cats grin, and queens demand heads for tea. Master B2 Russian vocabulary and grammar effortlessly, immersed in Alice's bewildering journey through a world gone mad. A margin dictionary means you never break your reading flow.
Side glossary · In-book and online exercises
Russian is an official language of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is widely used in Ukraine, Central Asia, and the Baltic states. It remains a lingua franca in much of the post-Soviet space.
Russian has roughly 150 million native speakers and on the order of 250 million total users, including second-language speakers across the former Soviet sphere and diaspora.
Russian is a Slavic language with three genders, six cases, and aspectual verb pairs. Flexible word order expresses information structure; verbs agree with the subject in person and number. Motion verbs with prefixes and palatalization patterns are notable learning areas.