Journeva
In October 1928 Virginia Woolf told the women students of Cambridge what a writer needs, and her answer still fits in one line.
It is October 1928. Virginia Woolf is a writer. She goes to Cambridge. She speaks to women students there.
The women study, but they cannot get a full degree. That changes only in 1948.
In 1929 her talks are a book. It says: a woman needs money and "a room of her own". Then she can write stories.
Money means time. A lock on the door means quiet. One free hour at the kitchen table counts too.
Every Journeva story exists at four levels — same plot, same characters, richer language each step. Here is how this one begins at each level.
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 StoreRead it in a language you already know to check your understanding — every Journeva story is written in all five.
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