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The Little Lame Duck and Other Tales: read in Ukrainian (A1)

Read four Ukrainian folk tales, The Little Lame Duck, The Goat and the Ram, The Wonder Egg and Oh, in simple Ukrainian: an A1 retelling with word translation.

Кривенька качечка та інші казки (адаптація, Українські народні казки)

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Level A1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Present tense, the past tense in questions (зробила, зварив, бачили), everyday vocabulary (home, food, farm animals, forest, river), the imperative (подай, візьмімо, неси, тікаймо), the vocative case (бабо, діду, баране), ordinal numbers (перший, другий, третій), questions with хто, що, чого and навіщо

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of four Ukrainian folk tales (Кривенька качечка, Цап та баран, Яйце-райце and Ох), based on Ivan Rudchenko’s collection of 1869-1870 and retold in simple Ukrainian. Level A1 suits beginners: short sentences, the present tense and plenty of dialogue. You will learn words for the village home, farm animals, the forest and the river, the imperative used in every request, and the repeated lines of songs and tests.

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