Day 135: Fifty Going on Fourteen
On an Intercity train in mid-August, a young woman (A) speaks to the woman sitting opposite her (B), a voice actress in her fifties who has been whispering lines from a script to herself since Malbork.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- 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.
- 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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A
Przepraszam, wiem, że nie wypada podsłuchiwać, ale od Malborka szepcze pani do siebie „slay” i „delulu”. Uczy się pani do jakiegoś testu?
Sorry, I know it's rude to eavesdrop, but ever since Malbork you've been whispering 'slay' and 'delulu' to yourself. Are you studying for some kind of test?
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B
Do roli. Jestem aktorką dubbingową, jutro podkładam głos czternastolatce w serialu dla młodzieży, a rozumiem co trzecie słowo. Posłucha pani, jak to brzmi?
For a part. I'm a voice actress: tomorrow I'm dubbing a fourteen-year-old in a series for teenagers, and I understand every third word. Would you mind listening to how it sounds?
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A
Chętnie, to mój język ojczysty.
Happy to, it's my mother tongue.
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B
Proszę: „Slay, siostro! Tylko nie bądź delulu: jak ktoś cię ghostuje od tygodnia, to nie jest zajęty, tylko ma cię gdzieś”.
Here goes: 'Slay, sis! Just don't be delulu: if someone's been ghosting you for a week, he isn't busy, he just couldn't care less.'
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A
„Slay” to pochwała: że ktoś wygląda albo robi coś zabójczo dobrze. „Ghostować” to zniknąć bez słowa, jak duch, a być „delulu” to żyć złudzeniami.
'Slay' is praise: it means someone looks or does something devastatingly well. 'Ghosting' is vanishing without a word, like a ghost, and being 'delulu' means living in a fantasy.
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B
A ja czytałam tę kwestię czule, jakby „delulu” znaczyło „kochanie”. Czyli należałoby ją zagrać ostrzej. A pani dokąd jedzie, jeśli wolno spytać?
And I've been reading that line tenderly, as if 'delulu' meant 'darling'. So it ought to be played with more bite. And where are you headed, if I may ask?
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A
Do chłopaka, na niespodziankę. Od tygodnia nie odpisuje, bo ma sesję, więc wiozę mu szarlotkę, żeby miał siłę do nauki.
To my boyfriend's, as a surprise. He hasn't replied for a week because he's got exams, so I'm taking him an apple cake to keep his strength up for studying.
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B
Sesję w połowie sierpnia? Nie chcę się wtrącać, ale mój syn w sierpniu ma najwyżej sesję zdjęciową na plaży.
Exams in the middle of August? I don't want to interfere, but in August the only session my son has is a photo session on the beach.
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A
No bo on chyba ma poprawkę. Pisał, że ma dużo nauki, zanim w ogóle przestał pisać.
Well, he's probably got a resit. He wrote that he had loads of studying, before he stopped writing altogether.
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B
To niech mi pani pozwoli powiedzieć po młodzieżowemu, skoro już umiem: czy pani przypadkiem nie jest trochę delulu?
Then let me put it in teen-speak, now that I know how: aren't you, by any chance, just a little bit delulu?
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A
Auć. Zaorała mnie pani moim własnym słownikiem. Dobra, dzwonię do niego, zanim dojedziemy.
Ouch. You've just destroyed me with my own lingo. Right, I'm ringing him before we get there.
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B
Niech pani dzwoni, a szarlotkę zjemy we dwie do końca trasy. Jutro zagram tę scenę z pełnym przekonaniem, bo widziałam ją na żywo.
You ring him, and the two of us will polish off the apple cake before the end of the line. Tomorrow I'll play that scene with total conviction, because I've seen it live.
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