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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky’s complete 1912 novella in Ukrainian. Level C1: Hutsul dialect, Carpathian life and folk beliefs. Tap any word for its translation.
Hutsul dialect vocabulary (полонина, ґазда, маржина, царинка), Carpathian nature and pastoral life, folk beliefs and rituals, dialect grammar (separate reflexive си, тота/тото, future with му/меш), literary description
The complete text of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky’s novella Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1912), the story of Ivan and Marichka, two young Hutsuls from feuding families in the Carpathian mountains. Level C1: about 16,200 words with dense Hutsul dialect. You will learn the vocabulary of mountain pastures, farm life and folk beliefs, and the dialect forms the characters speak.
