Tag: #ReadinEnglish

An interesting book about dragons!

Just finished reading Voices of Dragons by Carrie Vaughn and I really enjoyed this book. ❤️
The story was so gripping that kept me up into the night! I just couldn’t put the book down!
Can’t wait for the sequel! 😘

Two interesting phrases from this book:
🇺🇲 (En) 👉👉👉 🇷🇺 (Ru)

🔹 hand-me-down = подержанный (hand-me-down truck)
🔹 walk/be on eggshells = ходить на цыпочках, подбирать слова (… he was walking on eggshells around her).

Started Reading – 9 June 2021
Finished Reading – 11 June 2021
My Rating: 5 Stars ★★★★★

Read aloud in English #2 – Grimms’ Fairy Tales – The straw, the coal, and the bean (eng subs)

Hi friends! Today I’m going to read you in English the Brothers Grimm fairy tale ‘The Straw, the Coal and the Bean’. This work is in the public domain.
I made this video to show you my daily read-aloud practice and also to help me track my reading and pronunciation progress in English.

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Title: Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Author: The Brothers Grimm
Translator: Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes
Language: English
Read by: Ekaterina Kassesinova

I’m a native Russian speaker and I tried my best to read in English with proper rhythm and intonation but I know my pronunciation is still far from perfect.

Please leave a comment below, and let me know what do you think about my pronunciation.
Thank you, guys! I really appreciate your help, any thoughts, feedback and suggestions!

Please check out my other videos where I’m reading out loud in different languages:

▶ Pushkin poem in 3 languages – Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian /У лукоморья дуб зеленый на трех языках https://youtu.be/dtu-H_kVxLY

▶ Anna Karenina – famous opening line in 5 different languages (En, Sp, Pl, Ru, Am) / Read aloud https://youtu.be/Mo32Yj1_AUY

▶ Reading Out Loud in English / My Language Learning Routine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYGYY…

▶ Leyendo en Español / Read aloud in Spanish // Rusa Tratando de Hablar Español https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT1ek…

▶ Rosjanka czyta po polsku / Reading in Polish // My Language Learning Routine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qu5…

▶ The Invincible Rooster – Read Aloud in Armenian /Անհաղթ աքլորը (Anhaght Aklore) (eng, rus, arm subs) https://youtu.be/aj2VPjkZ0V0

▶ Read aloud in Russian – Лошадиная фамилия А. Чехов (A. Chekhov) with EN transliteration + RU subs https://youtu.be/6IhsvMnsPiA

I hope you enjoy watching these videos as much as I enjoy making them!

🔴 About
Hi! I’m Kate, a bookworm and a language enthusiast. For many years I enjoy reading books, listening to audiobooks, watching movies in different languages but I still can’t speak. I cannot express myself and my thoughts as clearly as fluently as I want (without a prepared script).
The same problem with my native language – Russian. Public speaking always was a nightmare to me… 🙈
So that is why I decided to start making videos in different languages. I really want to get out of my comfort zone, to overcome my fear of speaking in foreign languages and have an opportunity to talk to all of you guys about everything!!!
My friends call me a silent polyglot …. but I don’t want to be silent anymore! :)

Let’s learn languages together!

▶ Subscribe to my channel for more videos! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3LK…
▶ Mail: info@silentpolyglot.com

Thank you so much for watching 💕

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language – David W. Anthony

I just finished reading The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World.

This book was written by David W. Anthony and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, not just because these subjects (prehistory, horses and languages) are my three favorites.The author also did a really fantastic job and described his detailed and very interesting investigation into the origins of Indo-European languages, the location of the Proto-Indo-European homeland and so much more.

This book was very well written and well-illustrated, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in knowing more about the Indo-European language family, the domestication of horses, the invention and use of wheeled vehicles, and also about Russian and Ukrainian archaeological studies.

Some interesting quotes from the book:

“It is oddly ironic that capitalist archaeologists made the mode of production central to their definition of the Neolithic, and Marxist archaeologists ignored it.”

“…you cannot understand the Indo-European problem if you ignore migration or pretend it was unimportant in the past.”

“Horse domestication might have depended on a lucky coincidence: the appearance of a relatively manageable and docile male in a place where humans could use him as the breeder of a domesticated bloodline. From the horse’s perspective, humans were the only way he could get a girl. From the human perspective, he was the only sire they wanted.”

“The absence of bit wear means nothing, since other forms of control (nosebands, hackamores) might leave no evidence. But its presence is an unmistakable sign of riding or driving.”

― David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World.

Started Reading – 19 March 2021
Finished Reading – 15 April 2021
My Rating: 5 Stars ★★★★★


I just finished reading Matilda by Roald Dahl and I loved this little book! 🇬🇧 💖

The writer has a great talent. His characters were so real! I literally cried while reading this touching story and remembering my own childhood...

Started Reading – 13 February 2021
Finished Reading – 20 February 2021

Future Minds – Richard Watson

Just finished reading Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Watson.

This is by far one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read! It was published back in 2010, but it’s worth reading even today. The author has captured the problems we are facing right now: how this new digital age is changing the way we think, our ability to focus and compose new ideas, and much more.

I really liked some of his quotes. For example:


“We have developed a culture of instant digital gratification in which there is always something to do – although, ironically, we never seem to be entirely satisfied with what we end up choosing.”

“We have also created a society in which schools teach children how to pass exams but don’t generally teach children how to think.”

“While we may be communicating with each other more, we may be listening and understanding each other less.”

“Fakery, insincerity, and big fat lies all prosper in a world that is too busy or distracted.”

“… too much information isn’t just useless, it’s harmful.”

“… digitization plus connectivity has increased the amount of information it’s now possible to consume to the extent that our attention is now fragmented all of the time.”

“We need to do a little less and think a little more. We need to slow down – not all the time, but occasionally. We need to stop confusing movement with progress…”


So it was a very interesting and thought provoking book, and I really enjoyed reading it.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who has concerns about our rapidly changing world in the digital era. 👍🤗

Started Reading – 11 November 2020
Finished Reading – 11 January 2021
My Rating: 5 Stars ★★★★★

Book review: Just Plain Weird ★★★★★

Just Plain Weird by Tom Upton. I got this book as a free kindle purchase some years ago (on January 7, 2014) and I really wasn’t expecting it to be that good.

What a story! I really loved this book. This was one of the best YA science fiction I’ve read so far.
It was well written, interesting and just-plain-weird. :)
Highly recommended!

Started Reading – 22 September 2018
Finished Reading – 07 November 2018
My Rating: 5 Stars

English books I’ve read in 2014

1) The Ivory Tower (a dystopian YA short story) by Kirstin Pulioff.
What a read! This short story blew me away. Amazing, just amazing!

2) Enchanted Castle (Book 1 in The Enchanted Castle Series) by Chrissy-Peebles.

3) A Measure of Disorder (Book 1 in The Mother-Earth Series) by Alan Tucker.
It was definitely one of the best books I read this year! I really loved the setting, the descriptions, the writing. I enjoyed every page!

4) A Cure for Chaos (Book 2 in The Mother-Earth Series) by Alan Tucker.
It’s a great read for YA and older readers!

5) Mother’s Heart (Book 3 in The Mother-Earth Series) by Alan Tucker.
Great books, all three of them! The author has created a unique and believable world with great characters and storylines. I love Jenni and Sara, Brandon and Bonnie, Alisha and Crank, Denny, Lori, Todd… even Mogritas. They are all so real! I miss them already. Hope to find more books as good as these someday!

6) My Mr. Rochester. Episode 1 (Jane Eyre Retold) by L.K. Rigel.
No… I’m sorry.

7) The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution by George John Romanes. (London: MACMILLAN AND CO., 1882).
It was well written and interesting work. I am so glad I found this book!

8) Angelique in Love (Book 5 in Angelique Series) by Sergeanne Golon.
To tell the truth, Russian translation of the book is much better. I would love to be able to read it in the original language (French) one day.

9) Perfect Chemistry (Book 1 in Perfect Chemistry Series) by Simone Elkeles.
A good easy read but slightly predictable at the end. And too many swear words…

10) Rules of Attraction (Book 2 in Perfect Chemistry Series) by Simone Elkeles.
It was just too similar to the first book in the series.

11) Funny Tragic Crazy Magic (Book 1 in Tragic Magic Series) by Sheena Boekweg.
A great plot twist! I loved this book!

12) Anna and the French Kiss (Book 1 in Anna and the French Kiss Series) by Stephanie Perkins.
It was the first English book that I couldn’t finish…

13) The Secret by Taylor Hart.
This was an interesting quick read but I expected a bit more.

14) My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick.
I loved this book so much! This is a very sweet and touching story about family, love and choices we make. Very well written!

15) Hell’s Hollow by Summer Stone.
A good debut book. Interesting but slightly boring sometimes.

16) The Pull of Destiny by Cheri Pye (hotcheri).
I’m reading it right now and I love this book! I really enjoy every chapter, every page of it. What a great read! Thank you, author!

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I hope I will be able to read books in Spanish and Polish soon! :)

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