Myna Mazailo: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read Kulish’s 1929 comedy Myna Mazailo in Ukrainian. Level C1: Russian-Ukrainian wordplay, mixed speech and a satire on Ukrainization, with word translation.
Мина Мазайло (Микола Куліш)
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What you'll learn
Quick everyday dialogue, the contrast between Ukrainian and Russian pronunciation (г and ґ), Russian written in Ukrainian letters, Soviet abbreviations of the 1920s (укрмова, лікнеп, загс, комсомол), the vocabulary of surnames and family, older forms such as од for від, and the Ukrainian spelling of 1928 (ориґінальне, клясних)
This article contains the full text of Mykola Kulish’s comedy Myna Mazailo (first printed in 1929), four acts about a Kharkiv clerk who wants to swap his Ukrainian surname for a Russian-sounding one during the Soviet Ukrainization of the 1920s, while his son fights for the Ukrainian language. Level C1 suits readers who can follow quick dialogue and want to catch jokes built on Ukrainian and Russian. You will learn the vocabulary of 1920s Kharkiv life and politics, the difference between г and ґ, the spelling of 1928, and how mixed Russian-Ukrainian speech sounds on the page.
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