Boryslav Laughs: read in Ukrainian (B1)
Read Boryslav Laughs in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader retelling of Ivan Franko’s 1882 novel of oil workers and a strike in Galicia, for level B1.
Борислав сміється (адаптація, Іван Франко)
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What you'll learn
Past-tense narration with perfective verbs (впав, кинувся, зблід, вибіг), words of work and money in the oil fields (ріпник, яма, кошара, каса, ринський, плата), the language of protest and persuasion (громада, змова, вимагати, згоджуватися), imperatives in speeches and proverbs (бий, карбуй, прикладай), collective numerals (дев’ятеро), comparisons with як (як неживий, як скеля, як телята) and reflexive verbs in -ся (засміявся, злякалася, розсердився)
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Ivan Franko’s unfinished novel Boryslav Laughs (Борислав сміється, 1881-1882), retold in simple modern Ukrainian. In the oil and earth-wax fields of Boryslav in Austrian Galicia, a young bricklayer joins a secret brotherhood of workers and turns their wish for revenge into a common fund and a strike, while rich owners plot, cheat and quarrel over a stolen invention. Level B1 suits learners who know the past tense: sentences of about 12 words, almost two fifths of the text in dialogue, 14 short chapters. You will learn words of work, money and protest, and the language of argument.
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