Day 29: The No-Show Founders
In a pierogi restaurant in Krak贸w's Kazimierz district, Patryk Sowa (A) and his girlfriend Madzia (B), who have built a table-booking app called Zaklepane ('Booked'), ask the owner, Mr Wies艂aw (C), for five minutes after their lunch.
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
Madziu, idzie. Spoko, w pi臋膰 minut ogarniemy temat, pitch mamy wykuty na blach臋.
Madzia, he's coming. Chill, we'll have this sorted in five minutes: we know the pitch by heart.
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B
Panie Wies艂awie, pierogi to by艂 sztos. A teraz Zaklepane, nasza aplikacja: nikt ju偶 pana nie wystawi do wiatru.
Mr Wies艂aw, those pierogi were fire. And now, Zaklepane, our app: nobody will ever stand you up again.
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C
Ju偶 trzy aplikacje mia艂y mnie zbawi膰. O ile pami臋tam, ka偶da bra艂a trzydzie艣ci procent, po czym znika艂a.
Three apps have already promised to save me. As far as I remember, each one took thirty per cent and then vanished.
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A
Zero prowizji, bez kitu. Go艣膰 p艂aci przy rezerwacji pi臋膰 dych, a jak nie przyjdzie, kasa jest pana.
Zero commission, no kidding. Guests pay fifty z艂oty when they book, and if they don't show, the cash is yours.
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C
Ilu restaurator贸w ju偶 to kupi艂o, panie Patryku? Bo CEO na wizyt贸wce to jeszcze nie firma.
How many restaurant owners have bought it so far, Patryk? Because 'CEO' on a business card doesn't make a company.
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B
Jeszcze 偶aden, ale jaramy si臋 tym od roku. Wie pan, jaka to masakra, kiedy kto艣 nie przychodzi?
None yet, but we've been hyped about it for a year. You know what a nightmare it is when people don't turn up?
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C
Masakra, powiada pani? Mam w zeszycie: sobota, dziewi臋tnasta, sze艣膰 os贸b, Sowa, nie przyszli, nie odbieraj膮.
A nightmare, you say? I've got it here in my book: Saturday, seven p.m., six people, Sowa, didn't come, not answering.
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A
Madziu, ale wtopa. To mia艂a by膰 impreza na start aplikacji, tylko akurat pad艂 nam serwer.
Madzia, what a fail. That was supposed to be our launch party, only that's exactly when our server crashed.
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B
Sam pan widzi, 偶e nas potrzebuje: z nami mia艂by pan trzysta z艂otych, a nie pusty stolik.
So you can see for yourself that you need us: with us, you'd have had three hundred z艂oty instead of an empty table.
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C
Sztos argument, jak m贸wi m艂odzie偶. No to zaklepane, o ile te trzysta z艂otych wp艂ac膮 pa艅stwo od r臋ki.
A fire argument, as the young people say. Then consider it booked, provided you pay me that three hundred on the spot.
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