Kilo Lingo

Esperanto stories

Short stories written within a strict vocabulary tier so every word is one you have already met - or should meet soon. That is comprehensible input by construction. The stories from chapters 1 and 2 are free to read; the rest of the library comes with Kilo Lingo Plus.

Kiom da homoj?
Top 148 wordsCore 1,0001 min

Kiom da homoj?

How many people?

52 words

Cent homoj
Top 200 wordsCore 1,0001 min

Cent homoj

A hundred people

79 words

A club room: the letter, in brown ink and blue biro, pinned on a cork noticeboard beside a green Esperanto flag, with empty chairs in front.
Top 300 wordsCore 1,0001 min Plus

La letero

The letter

130 words

La unua tago
Top 400 wordsCore 1,0001 min Plus

La unua tago

The first day

112 words

Photo from a bar doorway: a long table of about ten cheerful people of all ages, every one wearing the same green star pin; one young man at the end has gone bright red and holds his phone.
Top 500 wordsCore 1,0002 min Plus

Kiel mi scios, kiu estas vi?

How will I know which one is you?

162 words

A low wooden garden fence in the snow outside a family house: a dozen odd gloves of every colour stuck on its posts, none of them red, with paper notes pinned between them.
Top 600 wordsCore 1,0002 min Plus

La ruĝa ganto

The red glove

165 words

Phone photo of a family dinner table: a smiling tall blond guest sits in the chair at the head of the table, with a large pot he has cooked; a teenage boy laughs beside him; one place is empty.
Top 700 wordsCore 1,0002 min Plus

Nia gasto

Our guest

182 words

The back of a holiday building: a man stands on a chair in a tiny toilet with his head out of its little high window; between two tall white buildings in front of him there is a strip of blue sea as thin as a finger.
Top 800 wordsCore 1,0002 min Plus

Vido al la maro

Sea view

269 words

A half-emptied club room: boxes of yellowed newspapers, a dusty table with a teapot, and a thick dark green book lying open, its pages covered in lines of different inks; an old man looks out of the window.
Top 900 wordsCore 1,0003 min Plus

Poste estis trinkata teo

Then tea was drunk

285 words

Salutojn el la kongreso
Top 1,000 wordsCore 1,0002 min Plus

Salutojn el la kongreso

Greetings from the congress

224 words

A handwritten sheet of paper on a dinner table in front of three wine glasses: three lines of careful writing, and one short word in the last line crossed out with a single pen stroke; a pen lies beside it.
Top 1,000 wordsCore 1,0003 min Plus

Mil vortoj

A thousand words

297 words

La nova aŭto
Top 1,100 wordsCore 5,0004 min Plus

La nova aŭto

The new car

546 words