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The Stone Cross and Other Stories: read in Ukrainian (C1)

Read 21 complete stories by Vasyl Stefanyk (1897-1922) in Ukrainian. Level C1: Pokuttia dialect, village life, emigration and war. Tap any word to translate it.

Камінний хрест та інші новели (Василь Стефаник)

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Level C1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Pokuttia dialect forms (шо, коби, аді, тото, ци, відай), reflexive verbs in -си, є for я (дєдя, тєжко), past tense with personal endings (гадав-сми, би-м), vocabulary of farm work and village life, emigration and war, terse expressive narration

The complete text of 21 stories by Vasyl Stefanyk (1897-1922), among them The Stone Cross, about an old peasant whose family emigrates from Galicia to Canada, and the war stories Сини and Марія. Level C1: about 27,200 words with dense Pokuttia dialect in narration and speech. You will learn the vocabulary of peasant life and work, and the dialect forms of western Ukraine.

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