AUDIO, Listen to these clips for pronunciation
Open your book the pages indicated and you will hear Volodymyr Shyba speak Ukrainian words and phases.
This audio was recorded in Chernivtsi, Ukraine (at times when the air raid siren was not blaring). English was recorded by Lorene Shyba in Millarville, Alberta, Canada. (Full audiobook available here.)
POEM BY TARAS SHEVCHENKO – 2 minutes
Page 112.
Oh star! Star! And tears fall. | Have you already risen in Ukraine yet?
Are brown eyes searching for you | In the deep blue sky? Or do they forget?
Music, played by Volodymyr Shyba on guitar, is the Ukrainian National Anthem.
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Excerpt from Early Grades – 3 minutes
Pages 14 - 22
This is Daddy, and this is us? Daddy! Daddy! | This is Mommy, this is Daddy and this is us.
Music, played by Volodymyr Shyba, is "Under the Cherry Tree"
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Excerpt from Middle Grades — 5 Minutes
Pages 42 - 50
Danilko is writing a letter to Kolomyia. This is a city in the old country ... Beside Kolomyia, there is the river Prut. Kolomyia is a beautiful city. Danilko’s Grampa lives in Kolomiya.
Music, played by Volodymyr Shyba, is "Hey Pour Full Cups"
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Excerpt from Upper Grades — 3.5 Minutes
Pages 94 - 99
Two red roosters | Threshed the rye Two pullets with curly combs | Took the rye to the mill.
Bearded billygoat’s grinding | Nannygoat pouring in, And kiddie-goat is | Sorting it out.
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QR CODE UKRAINIAN WRITINGS on pages 42-58
In The Little Book, there are paragraphs in English that do not have their Ukrainian counterparts in the book. Here is the additional content promised by the QR codes in the book.
Page 42 | Page 44 | Page 46 | Page 48 | Page 50 | Page 52 | Page 54 | Page 56 | Page 58
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OTHER INTERESTING LINKS
Basic Phrases, with Olga Reznikova
Sonnet for Ukraine. Euromaidan was a "Revolution of Dignity" in Ukraine, which began in November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv. This video sonnet, made by Lorene Shyba at the Banff Centre, unfortunately has an 18+ designation due to the "violence". It is, after all, a protest against Russian rule by Ukrainian civilians and deserved a few molotov cocktails to be thrown around.