Day 47: Boomers at Twenty-Four
In a meeting room at the municipal waterworks in Radom, Mr Artur (A), the head of communications and a lover of old-fashioned bookish Polish, goes over a TikTok campaign to get teenagers drinking tap water with the two young people who run the company's social media, Asia (B) and Janek (C).
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.
Keys: E hide English · ← → previous / next day · point at a word to see its meaning
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A
Proszę państwa, z naszego badania wynika, że trzy czwarte licealistów nie pije kranówki, bo „śmierdzi rurami”. Zaiste, smutne to wieści.
Right, everyone, our study shows that three quarters of secondary school pupils don't drink tap water because it 'smells of pipes'. Verily, these are sad tidings.
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B
Proponuję serię tiktoków: „POV: jesteś kranówką i nikt cię nie docenia”. Lowkey smutne, ale rel: każdy nastolatek tak się czuje.
I suggest a series of TikToks: 'POV: you're tap water and nobody appreciates you'. Low-key sad, but relatable: every teenager feels that way.
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C
A na koniec influencer pije prosto z kranu i mówi: „Zero plastiku to prawdziwy flex”. Taki kontent się klika.
And at the end an influencer drinks straight from the tap and says: 'Zero plastic is the real flex'. Content like that gets clicks.
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A
Kontent, powiada pan? W dawnej polszczyźnie to znaczyło „zadowolony”. Wszelako kontent nie jestem, albowiem pokazałem scenariusz synowi.
Content, you say? In old Polish, 'kontent' meant 'pleased'. Yet pleased I am not, for I showed the script to my son.
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B
I co, nie spodobało mu się? Przecież piętnastolatek to nasz target.
What, he didn't like it? But a fifteen-year-old is exactly our target.
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A
Rzekł, iż „rel” i „lowkey” są boomerskie, a kto mówi „flex”, ma co najmniej trzydziestkę. Tedy dla niego państwo są boomerami.
He said that 'rel' and 'lowkey' are boomer words, and anyone who says 'flex' is thirty at least. Thus, to him, you are boomers.
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C
Boomerami? Mam dwadzieścia cztery lata! Starość wjechała z buta.
Boomers? I'm twenty-four! Old age has just kicked the door in.
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B
Bez spiny, Janku. Panie Arturze, a co według pana syna jest teraz na czasie?
Chill, Janek. Mr Artur, so what does your son say is in right now?
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A
Wedle niego nic, co tu wymyślimy. Spodobał mu się jeno mój styl: tak stary, że aż vintage. Przeto w kampanii występuję ja, a państwo, jako boomerzy, robią napisy.
By his reckoning, nothing we come up with here. The only thing he liked was my style: so old it's vintage. Therefore I shall star in the campaign, and you, as boomers, shall do the subtitles.
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C
Asiu, słyszysz? Szef nas właśnie zdissował, i to po staropolsku.
Asia, did you hear that? The boss has just dissed us, and in Old Polish, no less.
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