Peasant Arithmetic and Other Stories: read in Ukrainian (B2)
Read ten complete stories by Stepan Vasylchenko in Ukrainian. Level B2: village school, childhood, emigration and prison around 1910, with instant word translation.
Мужицька арихметика та інші оповідання (Степан Васильченко)
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What you'll learn
Village school and peasant vocabulary, children’s speech and dialogue, the 1927 spelling (коли-б, що-ж, печи, одмовив, инший), older pronoun forms (до його, на йому), holiday and church words, prison slang, past-tense narration and lyrical description
This article contains ten complete stories by Stepan Vasylchenko from the years around 1910: Мужицька арихметика, Басурмен, Волошки, Дома, Божественна Галя, На чужину, Над Россю, Під школою, Пацанок and Чарівний млин. Level B2 suits readers who follow everyday dialogue in Ukrainian and are ready for the older spelling of a 1927 edition, village speech and some Russian. You will learn the vocabulary of the village school, peasant life and church holidays, and see Ukrainian village life through the eyes of a former village teacher in the last years of the Russian Empire.
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