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