Добрый день, бабушка
Good Day, Grandma
Before you read
Russian simply leaves out is, am, and are in the present. Это кафе means This is a café, and Анна здесь means Anna is here. You just put the two ideas next to each other.
An adjective's ending shows the gender of the word it describes: маленький (masculine), маленькая (feminine), маленькое (neuter). Кафе is neuter, so it takes маленькое, старое, and хорошее.
Кофе ends like a neuter word, but Russian treats it as masculine, so it says кофе хороший, never кофе хорошее. You will see Tetya Tamara insist on this later in the book.
Есть can mean there is or there are: Здесь есть кафе. It can also be part of the verb to eat: ест means eats, as in Анна ест хлеб. Same spelling, two different words: the story makes clear which one is meant.
Chapter 1 complete
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