The Tin Ring: read in Ukrainian (B2)
Read Vasylchenko’s novella The Tin Ring in Ukrainian. Level B2: Kyiv schoolboys at a village harvest and lively dialogue, with instant word translation.
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What you'll learn
Lively everyday dialogue, narrative past and present tense, harvest and village vocabulary (перевесло, ступа, копа), school and Soviet terms of the 1920s (піонер, незаможник, лікнеп), older spellings such as од for від and як-же, Ukrainian prose of the 1920s
This article contains the full text of Stepan Vasylchenko’s novella The Tin Ring (1927) about three Kyiv schoolboys who walk to a village in the Poltava region for the summer harvest, where one of them hopes to earn a classmate’s tin ring. Level B2 suits readers who can follow lively dialogue and descriptions of the countryside in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of village life and harvest work, words of the 1920s school and the older spellings of the 1929 edition, such as од for від.
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