Day 109 of 113

Day 109: The Bruised Half

At a fruit growers' trade fair in Nadarzyn, near Warsaw, Cezary (A) hosts a panel on apple prices with 呕aneta (B), the purchasing director of a supermarket chain, Sylwester (C), who has an orchard near Gr贸jec, and Marcelina (D), a young woman who runs a small business pressing apple juice.

How to study this lesson 3 steps
  1. Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
  2. Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Polish word to see what it means.
  3. Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Polish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.

Dialogue

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  1. A

    Prosz臋 pa艅stwa, w sklepie kilogram jab艂ek kosztuje pi臋膰 z艂otych, a sadownik dostaje p贸艂tora. Pani dyrektor, gdzie偶 si臋 podziewa reszta?

    Ladies and gentlemen, a kilo of apples costs five z艂oty in the shops, and the grower gets one fifty. 呕aneta, where on earth does the rest go?

  2. B

    W ch艂odniach, transporcie i sortowaniu. Przyj膮wszy dostaw臋, odrzucamy jeszcze co pi膮te jab艂ko, bo klient chce du偶ych, b艂yszcz膮cych i bez plamki.

    Into cold stores, transport and sorting. Even after taking a delivery in, we still reject one apple in five, because customers want them big, shiny and without a blemish.

  3. C

    Czy偶 ja maluj臋 jab艂ka p臋dzelkiem? W czerwcu przeszed艂 grad, po艂owa jest poobijana, a pani bierze tylko te jak z katalogu.

    Do I paint my apples with a brush? A hailstorm came through in June, half of them are bruised, and you only take the ones that look like they're out of a catalogue.

  4. D

    To ja wezm臋 t臋 poobijan膮 po艂ow臋. T艂ocz臋 soki, a sokowi grad nie przeszkadza, byle jab艂ka by艂y zdrowe i s艂odkie.

    Then I'll take the bruised half. I make pressed juice, and juice doesn't mind a bit of hail, as long as the apples are sound and sweet.

  5. A

    C贸偶 za zwrot akcji! Panie Sylwestrze, nagle ma pan na scenie dwie klientki.

    What a turn of events! Sylwester, all of a sudden you've got two customers on this stage.

  6. B

    Spokojnie, sie膰 nie przegrywa z butelk膮 soku. Panie Sylwestrze, za 艂adne dam dwa z艂ote za kilogram, ale odrzucone wracaj膮 na pana koszt.

    Easy now, a supermarket chain doesn't lose out to a bottle of juice. Sylwester, for the good-looking ones I'll give you two z艂oty a kilo, but the rejects go back at your expense.

  7. C

    A to, co pani odrzuci, mam wozi膰 z powrotem pod Gr贸jec? Pani Marcelino, ile pani da za wszystko, jak leci?

    So whatever you reject, I'm supposed to cart back to Gr贸jec? Marcelina, how much would you give me for the lot, just as it comes?

  8. D

    Z艂oty dwadzie艣cia za kilogram, bez sortowania i bez zwrot贸w. W skupie za przemys艂 dosta艂by pan najwy偶ej siedemdziesi膮t groszy.

    One twenty a kilo, no sorting and no returns. At a buying point you'd get seventy groszy at most for them as industrial apples.

  9. B

    Dobrze, dwa dwadzie艣cia, a transport odrzuconych na nasz koszt. Z pani膮, pani Marcelino, ch臋tnie porozmawiam o soku: takiego nie mamy na p贸艂kach.

    Fine, two twenty, and transporting the rejects is on us. And Marcelina, I'd be glad to talk to you about your juice: we've nothing like it on our shelves.

  10. C

    Czy偶 to nie pi臋kne? Jab艂ko, kt贸re sie膰 odrzuci艂a, wr贸ci na jej p贸艂k臋 w butelce, po pi臋tna艣cie z艂otych za litr.

    Isn't that beautiful? An apple the chain turned down will come back to its shelves in a bottle, at fifteen z艂oty a litre.

  11. D

    Po osiemna艣cie, bo to sok t艂oczony, a nie z koncentratu. I mam warunek, pani dyrektor: moje butelki maj膮 sta膰 na wysoko艣ci oczu.

    At eighteen, because it's pressed juice, not from concentrate. And I have one condition, 呕aneta: my bottles go on the shelf at eye level.

  12. A

    Prosz臋 pa艅stwa, pyta艂em na pocz膮tku, gdzie si臋 podziewa reszta pieni臋dzy za jab艂ka. Ju偶 wiemy: w butelkach pani Marceliny.

    Ladies and gentlemen, at the start I asked where the rest of the apple money goes. Now we know: into Marcelina's bottles.

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