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သၟာဗဝ် ဒယှ် အာန်ဒဳသွာ Andiswa Soccer Star

Written by Eden Daniels

Illustrated by Eden Daniels

Translated by Bee Htaw Monzel

Language Mon

Level Level 2

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အာန်ဒဳသွာ ဗဵုဒၟံင် သၟတ်တြုဟ်တအ် တေအ်ဒၟံင် ဗဝ်ရ။ ညးတေအ် မိက်ဂွံ လုပ်တေအ်ကီုရ။ ညးတေအ် သၟာန် အစာထ္ၜးနဲ ကဵုညးတေအ် ဂွံလုပ် ပကေင်တေအ် ကရောမ် သၟတ်တြုဟ်တအ်ရ။

Andiswa watched the boys play soccer. She wished that she could join them. She asked the coach if she can practise with them.


အစာထ္ၜးနဲဂှ် ပၠီလဝ်တဲတုဲ ဟီုကဵု အာန်ဒဳသွာ “ပ္ဍဲဘာဏအ် သၟတ်တြုဟ်ရ အခေါင်တေအ်ဗဝ် နွံ၊ ဗှ်ေမၞိဟ်ဗြဴ လုပ်ဟွံဂွံ။”

The coach put his hands on his hips. “At this school, only boys are allowed to play soccer,” he said.


သၟတ်တြုဟ်တအ် ဟီုကဵုညးတေအ် အာဝေင် ပါသကေတ်ဗဝ်။ ဍေဟ်တအ်ဟီု ပါသကေတ်ဗဝ်ဂှ် သွက်သၟတ်ဗြဴ၊ တုဲ ဝှုတ်ဗဝ်ဂှ် သွက်သၟတ်တြုဟ်။ အာန်ဒဳသွာ စိုတ်ဟွံမိပ်။

The boys told her to go play netball. They said that netball is for girls and soccer is for boys. Andiswa was upset.


တ္ၚဲယးဂတဂှ်၊ ပ္ဍဲဘာဂှ် ပေါဲပြိုင်ဗဝ် ဇၞော်ဇၞော်နွံဒၟံင်ရ။ အစာထ္ၜးနဲဂှ် ဒှ်ဓဝိင် မုဟိုတ်ရောမ္ဂး မၞိဟ်ဠေဝ်အိုတ် ပ္ဍဲကဵု တိမ် (ဂကောံ)ညးတေအ်ဂှ် ယဲအာ ကၠုင်ဟွံမာန်။

The next day, the school had a big soccer match. The coach was worried because his best player was sick and could not play.


အာန်ဒဳသွာ ဒြေပ်အာ ဇရေင် အစာထ္ၜးနဲဂှ်တုဲ အာတ်မိက် ကဵုညးတေအ် လုပ်စၞး။ အစာထ္ၜးနဲဂှ် ဗီုလဵု ညးတေအ် ဂွံဖန်ဂှ် ကသပ်အိုတ်ဒၟံင်ရ။ တုဲဂှ် ညးတေအ် ဖျေဟ်သ္ဂုတ်သွာတ် ကဵု အာန်ဒဳသွာ လုပ် တိမ်ညးတေအ်ရ။

Andiswa ran to the coach and begged him to let her to play. The coach was not sure what to do. Then he decided that Andiswa could join the team.


ပေါဲဂှ် သကာတ်မြဟ် ဝါတ်ဒၟံင်ရ။ ပ္ဍဲကဵု အခိင်ကဝက်ဂှ် ညးလဵုမွဲလေဝ် ဟွံဂွံ ပၠုပ် ဂဝ် ဏီဖိုဟ်ရ။

The game was tough. Nobody had scored a goal by half time.


ပ္ဍဲကဵု ကဝက်အခိင် သကုတ်ဒုတိယဂှ် သၟတ်တြုဟ်မွဲ ကဵု ဗဝ် ကုအာန်ဒဳသွာ။ အာန်ဒဳသွာ ဓရိပ်ဏာဗဝ်ဂှ် ပ္ဍဲဗဒါဲတိုင်ဂဝ် ဗွဲမပြဟ်၊ ညးတေအ် တေအ်ဗဝ်ထတ်တ်တုဲ ဂွံအာ မွဲဂဝ် ဟဂှ်။

During the second half of the match one of the boys passed the ball to Andiswa. She moved very fast towards the goal post. She kicked the ball hard and scored a goal.


မၞိဟ်တအ် ထအဴတိုန်။ စတမ်နူတ္ၚဲဂှ်တုဲ မၞိဟ်ဗြဴလေဝ် ဂွံအခေါင် တေအ်ဗဝ် ပ္ဍဲကဵုဘာကီုရ။

The crowd went wild with joy. Since that day, girls were also allowed to play soccer at the school.


Written by: Eden Daniels
Illustrated by: Eden Daniels
Translated by: Bee Htaw Monzel
Language: Mon
Level: Level 2
Source: Andiswa Soccer Star from African Storybook
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