Day 119 of 129

Day 119: Friends, Family and Fools

On Boxing Day, on the chairlift up Czantoria in Ustroń, Gracjan (A) pitches the name-day app he is building to his best friend Szczepan (B), hoping he will invest in it.

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

    Dobra, to dosłownie elevator pitch: mam czas do górnej stacji. Zbieram rundę FFF, czyli friends, family and fools: dwadzieścia tysięcy za pięć procent.

    Right, this is literally an elevator pitch: I've got until the top station. I'm raising an FFF round, as in friends, family and fools: twenty thousand for five per cent.

  2. B

    Twoja mama już dała, kumple z roku też. Nietrudno zgadnąć, którym F mam być ja.

    Your mum's already chipped in, and so have your mates from uni. Not hard to guess which F I'm meant to be.

  3. A

    Przyjacielem, przez duże F. Aplikacja pamięta zarówno o urodzinach, jak i o imieninach twoich znajomych, po czym sama zamawia kwiaty.

    A friend, with a capital F. The app remembers both the birthdays and the name days of everyone you know, and then orders the flowers all by itself.

  4. B

    O urodzinach przypomina mi Facebook, i to za darmo. A imieniny obchodzą dziś głównie ciocie po sześćdziesiątce.

    Facebook reminds me about birthdays, and for free. And these days name days are mostly celebrated by aunties over sixty.

  5. A

    No właśnie: ty zapominasz, a ciocia się obraża. Rynek to miliony obrażonych cioć, a od każdego bukietu mamy prowizję.

    Exactly: you forget, and your auntie takes offence. The market is millions of offended aunties, and we take a commission on every bouquet.

  6. B

    Tylko że Anna ma w kalendarzu kilka dat, a Jan kilkanaście. Skąd aplikacja wie, którą obchodzi twoja ciocia?

    The thing is, Anna has several dates in the calendar, and Jan a dozen or so. How does the app know which one your auntie celebrates?

  7. A

    Pyta przy dodawaniu kontaktu, a jak nie wiesz, pisze do twojej mamy, bo mamy zawsze wiedzą. Zatem ryzyko pomyłki: zero.

    It asks when you add the contact, and if you don't know, it texts your mum, because mums always know. So the risk of a mistake: zero.

  8. B

    Czyli firma bez żadnego płacącego klienta jest warta czterysta tysięcy? Dobra, test na żywo: kto dziś obchodzi imieniny?

    So a company without a single paying customer is worth four hundred thousand? Fine, a live test: whose name day is it today?

  9. A

    Drugi dzień świąt, więc nikt, wszyscy leżą po bigosie. Chociaż czekaj, dziś Szczepana, czyli twoje! Stary, sto lat, zupełnie wyleciało mi z głowy.

    It's Boxing Day, so nobody: everyone's flat out after the bigos. Hang on, though, it's Szczepan's day today, so it's yours! Mate, many happy returns, it completely slipped my mind.

  10. B

    Tobie i wszystkim od dwudziestu sześciu lat. Byłbym się obraził, ale skoro nie jestem ani przyjacielem, ani rodziną, zostaje trzecie F: dawaj umowę, zanim zmądrzeję.

    You and everyone else, for twenty-six years. I'd have taken offence, but since I'm neither a friend nor family, that leaves the third F: give me the contract before I come to my senses.

  11. A

    O, powiadomienie z ósmej rano: „Dziś imieniny obchodzi Szczepan”. Aplikacja działa, tylko wyciszyłem telefon, bo rozpraszał mnie przy pracy nad aplikacją.

    Oh, a notification from eight this morning: 'Today is Szczepan's name day.' The app works, it's just that I muted my phone, because it kept distracting me from working on the app.

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