Day 67: No Cap from Hrubieszów
In a café under the arcades of the Great Market Square in Zamość, Wiesia (A), who spends her afternoons with her grandchildren, finally gets to see the messages her old friend Ela (B) has been exchanging with a widower she met on a dating site for seniors.
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
Elu, pokaż wreszcie tego Zbyszka z portalu randkowego. Od półtora tygodnia nie mówisz o niczym innym.
Ela, show me this Zbyszek from the dating site at last. You've talked about nothing else for a week and a half.
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B
Proszę: emerytowany kolejarz z Hrubieszowa, wdowiec. Tylko co drugie zdanie kończy mu się na „no cap”.
Here you go: a retired railwayman from Hrubieszów, a widower. Only he ends every other sentence with 'no cap'.
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A
„No cap” to „bez ściemy”. Mam troje wnucząt, więc słyszę to częściej niż „podaj sól”.
'No cap' means 'no kidding'. I've got three grandchildren, so I hear it more often than 'pass the salt'.
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B
A to? „Pani Elżbieto, ma pani rizz, a przy pani dwie trzecie pań z portalu to NPC”. Mam się obrazić?
And this? 'Mrs Elżbieta, you've got rizz, and next to you two thirds of the ladies on this site are NPCs.' Should I be offended?
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A
Wręcz przeciwnie: rizz to urok, a NPC to postać z tła. Tylko jaki siedemdziesięciolatek pisze tak o pierwszej w nocy?
Quite the opposite: rizz is charm, and an NPC is a background character. But what seventy-year-old writes like that at one in the morning?
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B
Faktycznie, trzy czwarte wiadomości przyszło po północy. A mówił, że zasypia zaraz po „Wiadomościach”.
You're right, three quarters of the messages came after midnight. And he told me he nods off right after 'Wiadomości', the evening news.
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A
Sprawa jasna: za dziadka pisze wnuczek. Dziadek śpi, a młody po nocach flirtuje.
Case closed: his grandson is writing for him. Grandpa's asleep while the youngster does the flirting at night.
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B
Wiesiu, muszę ci coś wyznać. Za mnie odpisuje wnuczka Oliwka, bo podobno piszę jak urzędniczka z ZUS-u.
Wiesia, I have a confession to make. My granddaughter Oliwka writes my replies for me, because apparently I write like a clerk at ZUS, the pensions office.
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A
Czyli od półtora tygodnia flirtują ze sobą wasze wnuki, a wy oboje robicie tylko za zdjęcia profilowe? Niezła beka.
So for a week and a half your grandchildren have been flirting with each other, and the pair of you are just the profile pictures? What a laugh.
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B
Gorzej: Oliwka pisze, że się z nim umówiła. Nie ze Zbyszkiem, z wnukiem. Z nas czworga tylko oni mają rizz.
Worse: Oliwka's texting that she's got a date with him. Not with Zbyszek, with the grandson. Of the four of us, they're the only ones with rizz.
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