Day 123: Day Twenty-Two of Twenty-One
On a six o'clock run along the lakeside promenade in Ostróda, Ernest (A) complains to his close friend Cyprian (B), a doctoral student in psychology who has come along to keep him company.
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
Dwudziesty drugi dzień i nadal tego nienawidzę. Trener z Instagrama obiecywał, że po dwudziestu jeden dniach bieganie wejdzie mi w nawyk.
Day twenty-two and I still hate it. The coach on Instagram promised that after twenty-one days, running would become a habit.
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B
Te dwadzieścia jeden dni to mit z poradnika pewnego chirurga plastycznego. Jego pacjenci potrzebowali co najmniej trzech tygodni, żeby oswoić się z nową twarzą.
Those twenty-one days are a myth from a self-help book by a plastic surgeon. His patients needed at least three weeks to get used to their new faces.
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A
Czyli trzy tygodnie zrywałem się przed świtem przez czyjś nowy nos? To ile naprawdę trzeba?
So for three weeks I've been dragging myself out of bed before dawn because of someone's new nose? How long does it really take, then?
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B
W badaniu z Londynu przeciętnie mijało sześćdziesiąt sześć dni, zanim nowa czynność stawała się automatyczna.
In a study in London, it typically took sixty-six days before a new activity became automatic.
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A
Sześćdziesiąt sześć? Czyli jeszcze kilkadziesiąt takich poranków, zanim przestanę przeklinać budzik?
Sixty-six? So another few dozen mornings like this before I stop cursing my alarm clock?
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B
Albo i dłużej, bo rozrzut był ogromny: jednym wystarczyło kilkanaście dni, innym, według szacunków, ponad osiem miesięcy.
Or even longer, because the spread was huge: for some people a couple of weeks was enough, for others, by the estimates, over eight months.
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A
No to pięknie. A w niedzielę zaspałem i myślałem, że cały wysiłek poszedł na marne.
Great. And on Sunday I overslept and thought all that effort had gone to waste.
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B
Spokojnie, u nich jeden opuszczony dzień niczego nie przekreślał. Nawyk to nie seria w Duolingo, która przepada po jednym dniu przerwy.
Relax, for them one missed day didn't ruin anything. A habit isn't a Duolingo streak that's gone after one day off.
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A
Dobra, biegnę dalej. Ale jeśli za kilkaset dni nadal będę tego nienawidził, pozywam trenera, a ty występujesz jako biegły.
Fine, I'll keep running. But if I still hate it a few hundred days from now, I'm suing that coach, and you're appearing as the expert witness.
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