Kilo Lingo

Russian 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.

Доброе утро
Top 100 wordsCore 1,0001 min

Доброе утро

Good morning

41 words

Маленький, но мой
Top 200 wordsCore 1,0001 min

Маленький, но мой

Small, but mine

49 words

Серый - это не цвет
Top 300 wordsCore 1,0001 minPlus feature Plus

Серый - это не цвет

Grey isn't a colour

54 words

Моя семья
Top 400 wordsCore 1,0001 minPlus feature Plus

Моя семья

My family

65 words

A six-year-old's crayon drawing: a fat pink piggy bank with a few banknotes sticking out of it, one note with 5000 on it covered in sugar crystals, another with 1000 on it with big black tea leaves stuck all over it, and a beaming little girl beside it.
Top 700 wordsCore 1,0002 minPlus feature Plus

Кто взял деньги?

Who took the money?

143 words

Dawn by a grey river in pouring rain: a small sagging tent, a fishing rod with nothing on the line, an empty bucket, two children wrapped in one blanket in the tent doorway, and the family car parked beside them.
Top 700 wordsCore 1,0002 minPlus feature Plus

Одна дома

Home alone

171 words

Dad stands at the railings of an old three-storey school, looking up at one window: the second from the left on the floor above the ground floor. The car waits at the kerb with Mum and Petya inside.
Top 700 wordsCore 1,0002 minPlus feature Plus

Я знаю дорогу

I know the way

205 words

A child's crayon drawing: a house cut open, a small boy at an upright piano upstairs crying a big tear, and an old man downstairs in an armchair with his hands over his ears while music notes fall through the floor.
Top 900 wordsCore 1,0003 minPlus feature Plus

Я больше не буду

I won't do it again

184 words

A one-year-old girl in a high chair hugs a smartphone to her chest with both arms and glares; a man's hand reaches in from the edge of the picture for it.
Top 1,000 wordsCore 1,0003 minPlus feature Plus

Первое слово

First word

253 words

A small kitchen on a winter evening: snow and lit-up blocks of flats outside the window, a mug of tea on the table, and a phone lighting up with an incoming call at 19:00, a photo of a smiling middle-aged woman on its screen.
Top 1,000 wordsCore 1,0003 minPlus feature Plus

Ах да...

Oh, and one more thing...

280 words

Не при бабушке
Top 1,000 wordsCore 1,0005 minPlus feature Plus

Не при бабушке

Not in Front of Grandma

379 words

Late at night in a small living room: a teenage boy and his little sister asleep at either end of a sofa under one blanket, a phone on the boy's chest, the TV still on, a clock on the wall at 00:10.
GCSE2 minPlus feature Plus

Скоро буду

Back soon

110 words