Chapter 5 of Yiddish Tales is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Yiddish Tales is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Get up, you silly Rebbe! We're there--in Chaschtschevate!" Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes. "Chasch-tsche-va-te???" "Chaschtschevate!
Chapter 5 of Yiddish Tales is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading “Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.”
past form of “gaze” — look at with fixed eyes
From this reading “Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.”
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading “Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.”
located or moved above the surround or above the normal position
From this reading “Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.”
red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
From this reading “Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.”
ludicrous, foolish
From this reading “"Get up, you silly Rebbe!”
without speed (“slow” is sometimes used informally for “slowly”)
From this reading “Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.”
characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
From this reading “Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.”
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In this reading “Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.”
rise to one's feet
In this reading “"Get up, you silly Rebbe!”
In this reading “Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
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From this reading "Chasch-tsche-va-te???"
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From this reading We're there--in Chaschtschevate!"
opinion or judgment
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
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From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
past form of “gaze” — look at with fixed eyes
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "Get up, you silly Rebbe!
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading We're there--in Chaschtschevate!"
located or moved above the surround or above the normal position
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Get up, you silly Rebbe!
red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
ludicrous, foolish
From this reading "Get up, you silly Rebbe!
without speed (“slow” is sometimes used informally for “slowly”)
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
in or at that place or location
From this reading We're there--in Chaschtschevate!"
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading "Get up, you silly Rebbe!
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From this reading We're there--in Chaschtschevate!"
in the company of; together with
From this reading Slowly, slowly, Fishel raised his head, and gazed around him with red and swollen eyes.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "Get up, you silly Rebbe!
Chapter 5 of Yiddish Tales by Helena [Translator] Frank holds 405 sentences, grouped into 81 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 5 holds 405 sentences of Yiddish Tales, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Yiddish Tales by Helena [Translator] Frank exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 405 sentences, grouped into 81 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 81 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 5 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 600 minutes of reading across 1538 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Yiddish Tales section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Yiddish Tales, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
