Day 115 of 129

Day 115: Location, Location, Translation

At the Monday team meeting of an estate agency in Chorzów, Mr Bernard (A), who has recently come from Poznań to run the office, asks his agents Eliza (B), who speaks Silesian at work on principle, and Albert (C) why one flat listing has the phones ringing.

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

Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.

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  1. A

    Proszę państwa, w sprawie mieszkania na Batorym mamy od wczoraj trzydzieści telefonów i wszyscy pytają tylko o sklep. Kto pisał to ogłoszenie?

    Ladies and gentlemen, since yesterday we've had thirty calls about the flat in Batory, and all anyone asks about is the shop. Who wrote that listing?

  2. B

    Jo, panie kierowniku. Przi tym mieszkaniu je sklep, to napisałach, że je sklep: suchy, z regałami na kompoty.

    Me, sir. That flat comes with a sklep, so I wrote that it's got a sklep: a dry one, with shelves for jars of compote.

  3. C

    Elizo, poza Śląskiem sklep to sklep, a nie piwnica. Dzwonią ludzie, którzy chcą tam otworzyć kwiaciarnię bądź kawiarnię.

    Eliza, outside Silesia a sklep is a shop, not a cellar. We've got people calling who want to open a florist's or a café there.

  4. A

    Czyli reklamujemy piwnicę jako lokal usługowy. Gdyby mi pani była powiedziała, co tu znaczy sklep, byłbym to poprawił.

    So we're advertising a cellar as commercial premises. Had you told me what sklep means round here, I would have corrected it.

  5. B

    Panie kierowniku, w Chorzowie kożdy wiy, co to je sklep. A fto szuko gyszeftu, niych niy zaglondo do cudzego sklepu.

    Sir, everyone in Chorzów knows what a sklep is. And anyone looking for a shop, a gyszeft as we say, shouldn't go poking around in someone else's cellar.

  6. C

    Tyle że pani od kwiaciarni twierdzi, że wczoraj to pan jej osobiście potwierdził, że sklep jest.

    Except the florist lady says it was you, sir, who personally confirmed to her yesterday that there's a shop.

  7. A

    Ja? A, rzeczywiście, czytałem jej to ogłoszenie przez telefon i byłbym przysiągł, że sklep to sklep. Wobec tego zawinili zarówno autorka ogłoszenia, jak i jego czytelnik.

    Me? Oh, true enough, I read her the listing over the phone, and I could have sworn a sklep was a shop. In that case, the listing's author and its reader are both to blame.

  8. B

    Nic sie niy stało, panie kierowniku. Ale ta pani dobrze trefiła: na parterze stoi stary gyszeft do wynajmu, łod lot zawarty.

    No harm done, sir. But the lady's come to the right place: there's an old shop to let on the ground floor, shut up for years.

  9. C

    Czekaj, to ja do niej dzwonię. Wynajmie gyszeft na kwiaciarnię, a w sklepie, znaczy w piwnicy, będzie trzymać kwiaty.

    Hang on, then I'm ringing her. She can rent the gyszeft for her florist's and keep her flowers in the sklep, I mean the cellar.

  10. A

    Doskonale. Od dziś zatem każde ogłoszenie z Chorzowa czyta pani Eliza, po czym dopisujemy słowniczek dla przyjezdnych.

    Excellent. So from today, Eliza reads every listing from Chorzów, and then we add a little glossary for newcomers.

  11. B

    Zicher, panie kierowniku. Piyrszy bydzie „sklep”, a zaroz za nim „sztajger”: taki kierownik, co przez telefon sprzedo kożdo piwnica.

    Sure thing, sir. First comes 'sklep', and right after it 'sztajger', a foreman: the kind of boss who'll sell any cellar over the phone.

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