Day 43: A Hundred and Twenty an Hour
On a regional train from Tarnów to Kraków, Klaudia (A), a maths student, leans over to Elżbieta (B), the woman opposite, who is frowning at an exam paper.
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
Przepraszam, że przeszkadzam, ale tu jest pomyłka. Najpierw należy podzielić.
Sorry to bother you, but there's a mistake here. You're supposed to divide first.
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B
To próbna matura syna. W jego liceum od września brak nauczyciela matematyki.
It's my son's mock matura. His school hasn't had a maths teacher since September.
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A
Akurat daję korepetycje z matematyki. Mogę zostawić pani numer.
I tutor maths, as it happens. I can leave you my number.
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B
Wspaniale, spadła mi pani z nieba. Ile kosztuje godzina?
Wonderful, you're a godsend. How much is an hour?
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A
Sto dwadzieścia. Tylko niech pani nie mówi, że to drogo.
A hundred and twenty. Just don't tell me that's expensive.
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B
Nie powiem. Ale jako polonistka chyba wybrałam nie ten przedmiot.
I won't. But as a teacher of Polish, I think I picked the wrong subject.
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