Day 153: Fifty-Nine Minutes Late
At the station in Kutno, a father (A) meets his grown-up son Sebastian (B), whose train from Poznań has just come in late.
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
Wreszcie jesteś! Szukałem cię na drugim peronie, a ty przyjechałeś na trzeci.
There you are at last! I was looking for you on platform two, and you came in on platform three.
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B
Zmienili peron pięć minut przed przyjazdem. Nie słuchałeś komunikatów?
They changed the platform five minutes before we got in. Weren't you listening to the announcements?
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A
Słuchałem, ale nic nie było słychać. Ile miałeś opóźnienia?
I was, but you couldn't hear a thing. How late were you?
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B
Pięćdziesiąt dziewięć minut. Jeszcze minuta i oddaliby mi część pieniędzy.
Fifty-nine minutes. One more minute and they'd have given me some of my money back.
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A
Szkoda. Mogłeś poprosić maszynistę o jeszcze jedną minutę.
Shame. You could have asked the driver for one more minute.
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B
Bardzo śmieszne. Chodźmy, bo zaraz ucieknie nam autobus.
Very funny. Come on, or we'll miss the bus.
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