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Trouble Teaches and Other Tales: read in Ukrainian (A1)

Read three children’s tales by Lesya Ukrainka, about a sparrow, a moth and a lily, in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader A1 retelling with word translation.

Біда навчить та інші казки (адаптація, Леся Українка)

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Level A1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Present tense, everyday vocabulary (birds, insects, flowers, home and garden), polite requests with навчіть and розкажи, the vocative case (пані, тітко, Павлусю, Леліє), diminutives (горобчик, гніздечко, сестричка), proverbs

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of three prose tales Lesya Ukrainka wrote for children and published in 1890-1891 (Біда навчить, Метелик and Лелія), retold in simple Ukrainian. Level A1 suits beginners: short sentences, the present tense and plenty of dialogue. You will learn words for birds, insects, flowers, home and garden, polite requests and forms of address, and a few Ukrainian proverbs.

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