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Talent and Other Stories: read in Ukrainian (C1)

Read six complete stories by Stepan Vasylchenko in Ukrainian. Level C1: a gifted village singer, prison, seminary and the First World War, with instant word translation.

Талант та інші оповідання (Степан Васильченко)

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Level C1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Village school and church vocabulary, amateur theatre and singing, prison and army words, the 1927 spelling (що-ж, коли-б, очи, одповів, инший), older pronoun forms (на йому, в йому), Church Slavonic quotations, lyrical description and first-person narration

This article contains six complete stories by Stepan Vasylchenko from the 1910s to 1924: Талант, Петруня, Оксана, Чорні маки, Вова and Отруйна квітка. Level C1 suits readers who handle long descriptive sentences in Ukrainian and are ready for the older spelling of a 1927 edition and a few lines of Church Slavonic. You will learn the vocabulary of the village school, church singing and amateur theatre, prison and the front, and see the village intelligentsia of the last years of the Russian Empire through the eyes of a former village teacher.

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