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Read Ivan Franko’s Boryslav Laughs in Ukrainian. Level C1: oil-field workers in 1870s Galicia, Galician vocabulary and long sentences, with instant word translation.
Oil-industry and mining vocabulary, work, wages and money, Galician forms of western Ukrainian (котрий, мусів), long descriptive sentences, past-tense narration, dialogue and argument
This article contains the complete text of Ivan Franko’s unfinished novel Boryslav Laughs (1881-1882), which breaks off in chapter XX: Benedio Synytsia, a young mason, joins the oil-field workers of Boryslav as they organise against the magnates Leon Hammerschlag and Herman Goldkremer. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long descriptive sentences and specialised vocabulary in Ukrainian. You will learn the language of work, money and the 19th-century oil industry.
