Day 22: Cups Nobody Drinks From
In Ruda ÅšlÄ…ska, Klaudia (A), who gets married on Saturday, has doubts about the polterabend, the Silesian pre-wedding custom of smashing crockery, which her older sister Sabina (B), a proud speaker of Silesian, is organising.
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
Sabinko, może jednak odwołajmy polterabend? Mama Olka trzyma kryształy w meblościance od trzydziestu lat i zemdleje przy pierwszym talerzu.
Sabina, what if we call off the polterabend after all? Olek's mum has kept her crystal in the wall unit for thirty years and she'll faint at the first plate.
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B
Co ty godosz, dziołszko? Tłuczymy na szczyńście, a niy yno dlo szpasu.
What are you on about, girl? We smash things for luck, not just for fun.
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A
Przyjdzie pół Rudy, z czego trzy czwarte ledwo znam, a potem mamy z Olkiem sami zamiatać to szkło?
Half of Ruda will turn up, three-quarters of whom I barely know, and then Olek and I are supposed to sweep up all that glass on our own?
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B
W tym je cało zabawa: jak wy dwoje pozamiatocie razem bez kłótni, to i małżeństwo wytrzymo.
That's the whole point: if the two of you can sweep it up together without a row, your marriage will last too.
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A
A skąd ty w ogóle weźmiesz tyle talerzy? Chyba nie z naszej kuchni?
And where are you going to get that many plates anyway? Not from our kitchen, I hope?
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B
Jo mom już trzi kartony, a starka dołożyła szolki, kerych niy cierpiała od swojigo ślubu.
I've already got three boxes, and Grandma's thrown in the cups she's hated since her own wedding.
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A
Babcia? Ta sama, która nigdy nie pozwalała nam pić z nich nawet kompotu?
Grandma? The same one who never let us drink so much as compote out of them?
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B
Bo to je prezent od jeji teściowej, a z takich szolek sie ajnfach niy pije.
Because they were a present from her mother-in-law, and you just don't drink out of cups like that.
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A
No dobra, ale mamie Olka musisz to jakoś delikatnie wytłumaczyć, bo ja nie mam siły.
OK, fine, but you'll have to explain it to Olek's mum gently somehow, because I haven't got the energy.
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B
Niy trza. Dzwoniła wczoraj i pytała, eli może przywieźć kryształy po swojij teściowej, bo czeko na to już trzydzieści lot.
No need. She rang yesterday to ask if she could bring the crystal she got from her own mother-in-law, because she's been waiting thirty years for this.
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