Day 65: A Thermos Is Not a Cup
In a café in Bielsko-Biała, across the road from a conference hotel, Patrycja (A), a young customer with a large thermos, asks the barista, Sandra (B), for the discount the café gives to people who bring their own cup.
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
Dzień dobry, poproszę dużą czarną do mojego naczynia, oczywiście z rabatem za własny kubek.
Good morning, a large black coffee in my own container, please, with the own-cup discount, of course.
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B
Z przyjemnością, ale to nie kubek, tylko półtoralitrowy termos. Zmieści się w nim trzy czwarte naszego dzbanka.
With pleasure, but that's not a cup, it's a one-and-a-half-litre thermos. It'll hold three quarters of our jug.
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A
W cenniku jest „własne naczynie”, o pojemności ani słowa. Zapłacę jak za dwie duże.
The price list says 'your own container', and not a word about capacity. I'll pay what two large ones cost.
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B
Duża kawa to czterysta mililitrów, a pani chce prawie cztery. Rabat jest za ekologię, a nie za hurt.
A large coffee is four hundred millilitres, and you want nearly four of them. The discount is for being green, not for buying wholesale.
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A
To może spotkajmy się w połowie drogi: trzy duże. Inaczej pójdę na stację obok, bo tam nalewają do termosu bez dyskusji.
Then why don't we meet halfway: three large ones. Otherwise I'll go to the petrol station next door, because they fill thermoses there, no questions asked.
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B
Kotwiczenie, dzielenie różnicy na pół, a na deser straszenie konkurencją. Wszystko jak z podręcznika.
Anchoring, splitting the difference and, for dessert, threatening me with the competition. All straight out of the textbook.
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A
Skąd pani zna te wszystkie techniki? Ja z tego prowadzę szkolenia!
How do you know all those techniques? I run training courses on them!
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B
Wiem, w hotelu naprzeciwko. Co sobotę w przerwie przychodzą tu pani kursanci i ćwiczą na mnie: dwie trzecie zaczyna od kotwiczenia.
I know, in the hotel across the road. Every Saturday during the break your trainees come in here and practise on me: two thirds of them start with anchoring.
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A
No to wpadłam. Ostateczna oferta: trzy czwarte ceny, a moi kursanci od dziś dadzą pani spokój.
Well, I've been caught out. Final offer: three quarters of the price, and from today my trainees will leave you in peace.
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B
Przeciwnie, niech ćwiczą dalej: każdy przegrany kupuje u mnie sernik na pocieszenie. Policzę pani dwie trzecie ceny: interesy, a nie stanowiska, pani trenerko.
On the contrary, let them keep practising: everyone who loses buys a cheesecake from me as a consolation. I'll charge you two thirds of the price: interests, not positions, Coach.
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