“English Joking” includes about two hundred English and American jokes, the text of which has not undergone any simplification and, thus, contains a large amount of widely used vocabulary and many colloquial expressions of modern English. The book is adapted for language learners as follows: each joke is repeated twice: first there is an English text with “hints” - interspersed with a literal Russian translation and a lexical and grammatical commentary (that is, adapted), and then the same text, but not adapted, without clues. Beginners to learn English At the same time, they can first read the text with hints, and then the same joke - without hints. Those who are improving their English can do the opposite: read the text without prompts, peeking at the prompts as necessary. Memorizing words and expressions occurs due to their repetition, without cramming. In addition, the reader gets used to the logic of the English language, begins to “feel” it. This book will relieve you from the stress of the first stage of language acquisition - from a mechanical search for every word in the dictionary and from fruitless guessing what a phrase means, all the words from which you have already found. The book is intended for an adult reader. Multilingual project by Ilya Frank: www.franklang.ru From the editor of fb2. There are two ways to format transcription: UTF-LATIN and ASCII-IPA. To display UTF-LATIN correctly, full Unicode fonts are required, for example, DejaVu or Arial Unicode MS. If for some reason this does not suit you, then use the ASCII-IPA version of the same book (it differs only in transcription encoding). But this is associated with slight difficulties of perception at the initial stage. Read more about ASCII-IPA on the Internet: /wiki/Kirshenbaum