🗣 In the final episode of our short series, the poetry itself takes center stage. “Страшні слова, коли вони мовчать” (“Words are scary when they are silent“) ― this poem by brilliant Lina Kostenko is a perfect and symbolic ending to our Ukrainian Poetry series.
Together with the podcast host Anna, dive deep into the poem, enhance your vocabulary with the словничок (dictionary), and learn to masterfully recite the verses.
! Season 6 of the podcast is entirely in slow, simple Ukrainian. For easier episodes with English, check out our Season 1 or Season 2.
Mentioned in the episode:
- Poem: Lina Kostenko “Wings”
- Poem: Lina Kostenko “Song with variations”
- Poem: Lina Kostenko “Life goes on and everything is without edits…”
- Poem: Lina Kostenko “You can live in the world without ideals”
- Poem: Lina Kostenko “And horror, and blood, and death, and despair”
- YouTube video: Bohdan Stupka recites Lina Kostenko’s poem “Wings”
Transcript and Exercises!
Конспект уроку – lesson notes for this episode include:
- Transcript of the entire episode in Ukrainian;
- Translation of challenging vocabulary in the margin;
- Питання-відповіді: Comprehension questions with suggested answers;
- Словничок: This episode’s focus vocabulary with additional examples in various forms;
- Three exercises to practice the lesson’s vocabulary and phrases. Answers included.
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