Day 144: Three Out of Three
The morning after a bright fireball lit up the sky over southern Poland, Bernadeta (A) is reading the news over breakfast at home near Zawiercie when her husband Sylwester (B) comes in from their field.
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
Pisz膮, 偶e na podstawie nagra艅 z kilkunastu kamer ustalono, gdzie mog艂y spa艣膰 fragmenty wczorajszego bolidu.
It says that, going by footage from more than a dozen cameras, they've worked out where fragments of last night's fireball may have come down.
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B
Wiem, nasze pole jest w samym 艣rodku. Chodzi po nim kilkudziesi臋ciu ludzi z magnesami, ale pierwszy znalaz艂em ja.
I know, our field is right in the middle. Dozens of people with magnets are walking all over it, but I'm the one who found the first piece.
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A
Poka偶. Wed艂ug artyku艂u meteoryt jest ci臋偶szy od zwyk艂ego kamienia, przyci膮ga go magnes i ma cienk膮, czarn膮 skorup臋.
Let me see. According to the article, a meteorite is heavier than an ordinary stone, it's attracted to a magnet and it has a thin black crust.
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B
Po dokonaniu analizy stwierdzam: ci臋偶ki jak ceg艂a, magnes si臋 go trzyma, skorupa czarna jak w臋giel. Trzy na trzy!
Having completed my analysis, I can state: heavy as a brick, the magnet sticks to it, and the crust is black as coal. Three out of three!
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A
Czekaj, tu jest czwarta cecha: brak p臋cherzyk贸w gazu. A tw贸j od spodu ma wi臋cej dziur ni偶 ser szwajcarski.
Wait, there's a fourth sign here: no gas bubbles. And the underside of yours has more holes than Swiss cheese.
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B
To od uderzenia, spada艂 z pr臋dko艣ci膮 kilkuset kilometr贸w na godzin臋. A przy naszej drodze znajduj膮 meteoryt za meteorytem.
That's from the impact, it was falling at several hundred kilometres an hour. And along our track they're finding one meteorite after another.
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A
Od uderzenia robi si臋 dziura w ziemi, a nie w kamieniu. Znajduj膮, bo tw贸j ojciec latami wozi艂 na ni膮 偶u偶el z huty.
An impact makes a hole in the ground, not in the stone. They're finding them because for years your father carted slag onto it from the steelworks.
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B
Czyli m贸j meteoryt przyjecha艂 z huty, a nie z kosmosu? Lec臋 ich zatrzyma膰, zanim rozkopi膮 nam drog臋.
So my meteorite came from the steelworks, not from outer space? I'm off to stop them before they dig up our track.
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