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Karmeliuk: read in Ukrainian (B2)

Read Vasylchenko’s play Karmeliuk in Ukrainian. Level B2: the Podillia outlaw, folk songs and Polish gentry, with instant word translation.

Кармелюк (Степан Васильченко)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Quick spoken dialogue and stage directions, the imperative and the vocative (Мошку, отамане, пане), vocabulary of serfdom and the outlaw band (панщина, облава, гайдамаки, економ), folk songs, older spellings such as од for від and тільки-ж, Ukrainian drama of the 1920s

This article contains the full text of Stepan Vasylchenko’s play Karmeliuk (1927) about Ustym Karmaliuk, the folk hero of Podillia who robbed the landlords in the early 19th century: a name-day feast in the forest, a night of fear in a gentry manor and a village crowd waiting for him. Level B2 suits readers who can follow quick spoken dialogue in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of serfdom and the outlaw band, the language of folk songs and the older spellings of the 1927 edition, such as од for від.

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