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How Yura Shykmaniuk Forded the Cheremosh and At the Top: read in Ukrainian (B2)

Read two complete stories by Ivan Franko in Ukrainian. Level B2: an old Hutsul’s feud on the Cheremosh and students in Kraków, with word translation.

Як Юра Шикманюк брів Черемош. На вершку (Іван Франко)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Hutsul dialect words (дєдю, мой, ади, головатиця), Galician and older forms (свойого, відки, звільна, смерти), village, river and mountain vocabulary, dialogue and student banter, long descriptive sentences, past-tense narration

This article contains two complete stories by Ivan Franko: Як Юра Шикманюк брів Черемош, written in 1903, about an old Hutsul who quarrels with his son and the village innkeeper, and На вершку, an early story of 1880 about students living it up in a Kraków hotel. Level B2 suits readers who follow everyday dialogue in Ukrainian and are ready for dialect and older forms. You will learn the speech of a Carpathian village, river and mountain vocabulary, and the lively talk of city students.

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