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Read Ivan Franko’s Boa constrictor in Ukrainian. Level C1: the oil fields of 1870s Galicia, business vocabulary and long narrative sentences, with instant word translation.
Oil-industry and trade vocabulary, money and business, Galician forms of western Ukrainian, long descriptive sentences, past-tense narration and memory, dialogue
This article contains the complete text of Ivan Franko’s novella Boa constrictor (first published 1878, revised 1907) about Herman Goldkremer, an oil magnate in Boryslav who looks back on his rise from poverty. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long descriptive sentences and specialised vocabulary in Ukrainian. You will learn the language of trade, money and the 19th-century oil industry.
