Day 16: Pickles with Bluetooth
At Sunday dinner in their parents' flat in Rzesz贸w, Ola (A), an analyst at a Warsaw venture capital fund, gives her older brother Tomek (B) three minutes to pitch his latest startup.
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
Masz trzy minuty. Uprzedzam, 偶e w funduszu odrzucam dziewi臋膰dziesi膮t procent projekt贸w, zanim ostygnie kawa.
You've got three minutes. Fair warning: at the fund I turn down ninety per cent of projects before my coffee gets cold.
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B
Wystarcz膮 dwie. KiszON: inteligentny s艂oik, kt贸ry mierzy kwasowo艣膰 i daje zna膰, kiedy og贸rki s膮 gotowe.
Two will do. KiszON: a smart jar that measures acidity and lets you know when your pickles are ready.
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A
A jaki problem rozwi膮zujesz? Babcia od p贸艂 wieku wie to bez Bluetootha.
And what problem are you solving? Grandma's known that for half a century without Bluetooth.
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B
Ale my ju偶 nie. Po przeprowadzeniu ankiety wysz艂o, 偶e wi臋kszo艣膰 znajomych boi si臋 w艂asnych kiszonek.
But we don't. Following a survey, it turned out that most of my friends are scared of their own pickles.
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A
Znajomi przy grillu to nie rynek. Fundusz inwestuje w ludzi, wi臋c kto jest w zespole?
Your mates at a barbecue aren't a market. A fund invests in people, so who's on the team?
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B
Oboje z Kamil膮, kole偶ank膮 z polibudy, siedzimy w tym od wiosny: ja robi臋 elektronik臋, ona sprzeda偶.
Kamila, a friend from uni, and I have both been at it since spring: I do the electronics, she does the sales.
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A
Czyli Kamila umie sprzedawa膰, a ty masz na koncie cztery upad艂e startupy, w tym aplikacj臋 do grzybobrania.
So Kamila can sell, and you've got four failed startups to your name, including a mushroom-picking app.
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B
Nie upad艂e, tylko wygaszone w celu skupienia si臋 na kluczowym produkcie. A efekty jesz od p贸艂 godziny: te og贸rki s膮 z KiszON-a.
Not failed: wound down in order to focus on the core product. And you've been eating the results for half an hour: these pickles came out of a KiszON.
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A
To dlatego trzy razy sobie dok艂ada艂am? Dobra, masz drugie spotkanie, a s艂oik zostaje u mnie jako zabezpieczenie.
So that's why I've had three helpings? Fine, you've got a second meeting, and the jar stays with me as collateral.
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