Day 142: Where Reporters Start
At a bookshop in Oleśnica, a mother (A) looking for a present for her son, a first-year journalism student, asks the young bookseller (B) for advice.
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, syn zaczął studiować dziennikarstwo i szukam dla niego „Cesarza” Kapuścińskiego. Podobno od niego powinno się zaczynać.
Good morning, my son has started studying journalism, and I'm looking for Kapuściński's The Emperor for him. Apparently that's where you're supposed to start.
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B
Dobry wybór, ale warto dołożyć „Kapuściński non-fiction”, biografię, która pokazuje, że część scen była podkoloryzowana bądź zmyślona.
A good choice, but it's worth adding Kapuściński Non-Fiction, a biography that shows some of the scenes were embellished or made up.
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A
Przecież na tym legendarnym klasyku wychowały się pokolenia reporterów! Nie kupię synowi książki, która strąca jego idola z piedestału.
But generations of reporters grew up on that legendary classic! I'm not buying my son a book that knocks his idol off his pedestal.
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B
Mimo to warto znać obie strony. Mówi się, że reportaż to umowa z czytelnikiem: opisane zdarzenia są prawdziwe.
Even so, it's worth knowing both sides. They say reportage is a contract with the reader: the events described are true.
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A
Dla mnie to literatura, nie protokół. Czy „Cesarz” nie jest zatem przede wszystkim przypowieścią o władzy?
To me it's literature, not an official record. So isn't The Emperor above all a parable about power?
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B
Jest, tak go czytano w PRL-u. Tylko że wydano go jako reportaż i dlatego spór dotyczy jego wiarygodności.
It is, and that's how people read it in communist Poland. The thing is, it was published as reportage, which is why the dispute is about its credibility.
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A
Mówi pani zupełnie jak mój syn. Wobec tego wezmę obie: niech się kłóci z nimi, a nie ze mną.
You sound just like my son. In that case, I'll take both: he can argue with them instead of with me.
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B
Zapakuję je osobno, żeby się nie pogryzły. Na półkach też trzymamy je na dwóch końcach sklepu.
I'll wrap them separately so they don't bite each other. On the shelves, too, we keep them at opposite ends of the shop.
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