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The Flying Ship and Other Tales: read in Ukrainian (A1)

Read three Ukrainian folk tales, from the fool and his flying ship to Truth and Falsehood, in simple Ukrainian: an A1 retelling with word translation.

Летючий корабель та інші казки (адаптація, Українські народні казки)

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Level A1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Present tense, the past tense in speech (втомився, допомагали, пройшла), the vocative case (діду, дядьку, сестро, дурню, теличко), the imperative (сідайте, вставай, дай, ходімо), possession with у мене є, perfective verbs with future meaning (принесу, розбуджу, допоможу), everyday vocabulary (home, bread, road, forest, river), numbers (три, сім, сорок)

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of three Ukrainian folk tales (Летючий корабель, Рись-мати and Правда та Неправда), based on Ivan Rudchenko’s collection of 1869-1870 and retold in simple Ukrainian. Level A1 suits beginners: short sentences, the present tense and plenty of dialogue. You will learn words for the village home, bread and food, the road and the forest, the tsar’s court, greetings with the vocative, and the repeated lines that carry a folk tale.

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