Priya is new in the city. For six days, she eats only toast. Then a good smell comes from next door. She knocks. Her neighbor Anand looks at her toast. "Come," he says. "I will show you the cheapest good dinner in the world."
Wash one cup of red lentils. Put them in a pot with three cups of water and a pinch of turmeric. Cook for twenty minutes. The lentils become soft and gold. Add salt.
Now the trick. Heat two spoons of oil in a small pan. Add one spoon of cumin seeds and two cloves of garlic. Pour the hot oil over the lentils.
Eat it with rice or bread. Anand says: "A pot for four people costs less than one coffee."
The next evening, Priya cooks the lentils herself. She never eats toast for dinner again.
Every Journeva story exists at four levels — same plot, same characters, richer language each step. Here is how this one begins at each level.
A2 · ElementaryPriya has been in the city for six days and has eaten toast for five of them. On the sixth evening, the smell from next door is too good, so she knocks. …
B1 · IntermediatePriya has been in the city for six days and has eaten toast for five of them. On the sixth evening, the smell from next door is too good to ignore, so she knocks. …
B2 · Upper intermediatePriya has been in the city for six days and has eaten toast for five of them. On the sixth evening, the smell drifting from the flat next door becomes impossible to ignore, so she knocks. …
Read the whole story at A2, B1 and B2
In the app you can tap any word for its meaning, listen to the story read aloud with the words lighting up, and save words to practise later. Ten stories are free at every level, and every story is free at A1.
Get Journeva on the App Store
Read it in a language you already know to check your understanding — every Journeva story is written in all five.
Journeva
