The website couldn't speak for him. It couldn't give him the "English voice" Verbitskaya’s book kept asking for. Tim looked at his sleeping hamster, Bubbles. He realized that while Goz had finished the ink on the page, his own tongue was still tied in knots.

He looked at the clock. 7:00 PM. His favorite cartoon was starting soon. Desperate, he opened his laptop and typed the magic words: GDZ 2 Klass Verbitskaya.

With a click, the "Answers" appeared. There it was—Exercise 5. The translation was laid out perfectly. Tim’s pencil flew across the paper. Кот под столом. Done. Exercise 6? Я умею прыгать. Done. He felt like a secret agent decoding a transmission.