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Vocabulary: Stroke

The Singing Widow

Mar 23, 2021

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Genre: Romance

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Equally, Grave, Land, Lonely soul, Misery, Pale, Petal, Place (put), Stroke, Widow

Word Count: 886

Original Author: Daniel from Argentina

Life cannot continue in such a way, floating on a sea of misery. So one day, the widow cried her final tear, closed her eyes, and never woke up again. That is, she never woke up in the human world. Of course, she went to the land of the dead, and she was filled with happiness. Now she could meet her husband again! She ran through the streets of the land of the dead, climbed…
Nasreddin the Wise Man

Dec 29, 2020

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Genre: Comedy

Setting: Medieval

New Vocabulary: Basketful, Equally, In that case, No reason, Precious, Stroke, Sunlight, Train (animal), Truly, Vineyard, Wise

Word Count: 941

Original Author: Middle Eastern Myths

So today’s story is actually a collection of six short folk tales and they’re all about a funny character called Nasreddin. So, Nasreddin is a character who appears in folk tales in many parts of the world. He mainly appears in stories in the Middle East and Europe, mainly Eastern Europe, and he’s known by many different names.