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Vocabulary: Truly

The Spider’s Thread (Pre-Intermediate)

Dec 6, 2022

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Genre: Philosophical

Setting: Japan

New Vocabulary: Buddha, Crawl, Demon, Evil, Heaven, Hell, Just as, Needle, Suffer, Take a few liberties, Thread, Truly

Word Count: 1501

Original Author: Ryuunosuke Akutagawa

Kandata was an evil thief when was alive, and now he lives in Hell. Buddha remembers a time when Kandata did good, and decides to give him a chance to show that he isn’t truly evil. Will Kandata become good, or is he simply a bad person?
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.