Столик у окна
The Table by the Window
B1 · Intermediate · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story
An intermediate romantic comedy that turns on one physical fact: the café has two windows, so it has two tables by the window. Marina picks the wrong one and spends forty very good minutes with the wrong man, until both of the real dates arrive at once.
Characters
- Marina (Марина) — The reluctant date
- Anton (Антон) — The baker
- Sveta (Света) — Marina's friend
- Igor and Lena (Игорь и Лена) — The real dates
Vocabulary from this story
- свидание — date
- вслепую — blind
- незнакомый — unfamiliar
- собеседник — the person you're talking to
- разведён — divorced
- знакомство — meeting
- кафе — café
- столик — table
- окно — window
- официант — waiter
- кофе — coffee
- чай — tea